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.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Jinx against Veigar matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar..
Jinx often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Veigar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jinx usually fairs equally well when playing against Veigar, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Jinx makes an ok counter to Veigar.
While Jinx does have a higher winrate than Veigar, when facing one another, Jinx also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Jinx into Veigar.
Moreover, Jinx has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Veigar matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Jinx is a decent counter for Veigar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Jinx against Veigar.
If you would like to truly master Jinx to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Veigar. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Jinx versus Veigar build include Infinity Edge, Phantom Dancer, and Kraken Slayer. When Jinx combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Veigar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jinx had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Veigar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Veigar as Jinx, Jinx players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Jinx vs Veigar face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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