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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
The stats provided here show several significant Illaoi against Jinx matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jinx’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jinx..
Illaoi typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Jinx. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when playing against Jinx, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a poor counter for Jinx.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate than Jinx, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Jinx.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jinx. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Jinx matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Jinx. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Jinx.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Jinx during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Jinx. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Illaoi versus Jinx build include Spirit Visage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Jinx than with most other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Jinx with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Jinx as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Illaoi vs Jinx LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
If you would like to get Illaoi vs Jinx tips and counter builds for a a particular division rank, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the stats and strategies given are calculated using every round run with these champs.