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.
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
The Jinx Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Jinx sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Jinx perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jinx is paired with Annie, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Annie does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Jinx is played together with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Moreover, when Jinx plays with Annie on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Annie does a poor job of protecting Jinx in team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Jinx that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Annie is a very typical teammate for Jinx. By playing on the same side as Jinx, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 49.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Jinx and Annie that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Jinx. That means Jinx players don't need to be cautious when arranging Annie allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Jinx players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Jinx and Annie together, you will not be granting your other teammates much engage potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Jinx in order to work well with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Jinx and Annie synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Jinx included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Annie than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jinx boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Annie with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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