Talon vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Talon
based on 3,860 Talon vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Jinx
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Advice to Win Against Jinx
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.
Talon vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Talon in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Talon against Jinx matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jinx..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Jinx. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Jinx
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Who is Better, Talon or Jinx?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when taking on Jinx, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a poor counter to Jinx.
While Talon does have a lower winrate compared to Jinx, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Talon into Jinxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Talon also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Jinx matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter for Jinx. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Talon against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Talon to counter Jinx during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jinx. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Talon versus Jinx build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Talon used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Jinx than with most other typical builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Jinx with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Jinx as Talon, Talon players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Talon vs Jinx counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jinx as Talon are shown for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.