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.
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
The Jinx Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Jinx perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jinx is an ally to Kog'Maw, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This could signal that Kog'Maw helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Jinx is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Jinx plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Jinx in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Jinx that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, Kog'Maw is a great teammate for Jinx. By playing on the same side as Jinx, he raises their win rate by 5.2% to 55.0%. This shows that there is a very real synergy between Jinx and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Jinx. That means Jinx players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kog'Maw allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Jinx players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Jinx and Kog'Maw together, you will not be providing your team much tankyness. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Jinx to work well with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Jinx and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Jinx used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jinx boasted an average win rate of 55.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Jinx players should use 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.0% win rate overall.
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