Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Jinx vs. Ivern matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ivern’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ivern. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Jinx typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ivern. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jinx usually loses when trying to fight Ivern, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Jinx makes a bad counter to Ivern.
While Jinx does have a lower win rate compared to Ivern, when on opposite teams, Jinx also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Jinx into Ivern.
Furthermore, Jinx has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ivern. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Ivern matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Jinx is a somewhat poor counter to Ivern. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jinx against Ivern.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jinx in order to counter Ivern during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx most often picks up much more CS as Ivern. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Jinx versus Ivern build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Rapid Firecannon. When Jinx included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Ivern than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jinx had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Ivern with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Ivern as Jinx, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Jinx vs Ivern counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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