Caitlyn with Jinx
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Jinx
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Caitlyn Jinx Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Jinx
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Jinx
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Jinx Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Jinx Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jinx as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Jinx synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jinx, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jinx. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jinx helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Jinx, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Jinx doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played together with Jinx on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Jinx.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Jinx on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Jinx does a poor job of covering Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Jinx?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Jinx is a terrible teammate for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, she decreases their win rate by -6.5% to 42.8%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Caitlyn and Jinx that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Jinx has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be very careful when arranging Jinx teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Caitlyn and Jinx together, you probably will not be providing your team enough engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Jinx ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to synergize with Jinx during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Caitlyn and Jinx synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Jinx than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 42.8% when playing alongside Jinx with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.8% win rate overall.
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