Jinx guide: build, runes, matchups and mistakes to avoid

Jinx in figures

Games in bot lane

66,132 (99.6% of the champion’s games)

Win rate

51.6%

Pick rate

≈ 17.5% of games

Ban rate

≈ 11.0% of games

The figures in this guide come from 378,251 ranked solo games played on EUW, patches 16.18 to 16.21, read through Riot’s official API up to 24 October 2026: the same sample as Gankademy’s champion pages. “≈” marks a figure the app also gives as indicative.

The build that wins most

A build, here, is the order of the first three finished items. Out of the 12,559 Jinx games in bot lane where those three items are known, the three most-played paths:

The most-played path — Hexoptics C44 → Runaan’s Hurricane → Infinity Edge — is the reference. Taking Infinity Edge before Runaan’s Hurricane (build 3) wins even more often, on far fewer games: worth it when you are ahead. Lord Dominik’s Regards as the third item answers tanks.

With build 1, the game most often starts with Doran’s Bow + 2 × Health Potion + Stealth Ward, the boots are Berserker’s Greaves (97% of games) and the skills are maxed in the order Q > W > E (99%). Most frequent next items: Lord Dominik’s Regards, Bloodthirster, Guardian Angel.

Runes and summoner spells

The most-played rune pages of Jinx in bot lane, by keystone and trees:

Lethal Tempo is Jinx’s keystone in almost every game, with Inspiration or Sorcery behind it: the two win the same. Fleet Footwork, rarer, wins clearly less.

The full page most played with build 1: Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Cash Back, Triple Tonic. Summoner spells: Flash + Barrier in 90% of games.

Matchups: the easiest and the hardest

Jinx’s win rate against each opponent in the same role, compared with the champion’s usual 51.6%: the gap in points. Only matchups of at least 200 games are kept.

Jinx’s hardest lanes: Kog’Maw, who out-ranges her later on, Twitch, who catches her coming out of stealth, and mages such as Aurelion Sol, who harass her from afar. Against them, farm with your rockets, keep your chompers for their entry and wait for your first item: that is when Jinx takes over. Against Ezreal or Samira, your rockets and your chompers win the short trades.

The most frequent mistakes

Two habits measured on the 16,656 games with a minute-by-minute timeline, then the champion’s own mistakes. These gaps go with losing without proving the cause, but the habit to build is clear.

• Dying before 15 minutes. 56% of games have three or more deaths before the 15th minute; they win only 43.2%, against 65.4% when Jinx dies once or less (23% of games). Instead: Jinx is weak before her first item and strong after it. Farm with your rockets from a distance, and keep your chompers to stop an engage rather than to start one.
• Falling behind on farm. At 10 minutes, games with 64 minions or fewer (25%) win 40.1%; those with 81 or more (25%), 60.8%. Instead: switch to rockets to take a whole wave or the minions you are about to miss, and come back to the minigun for single targets.
• Fleet Footwork instead of Lethal Tempo. Fleet Footwork · Precision + Sorcery is taken in 1,247 Jinx games and wins 46.5%, against 51.6% for Lethal Tempo · Precision + Inspiration. Instead: Lethal Tempo.
• Staying on the minigun in a teamfight. The minigun needs time to reach full speed and keeps you close: in a fight, it pulls you into range of their divers. Instead: open with rockets from the edge of the fight, and switch to the minigun once the threats have used their spells.
• Missing the reset. A takedown makes Jinx much faster: that is when she cleans up a fight. Instead: after a kill or an assist, keep hitting the closest target — and don’t step into the next fight before your team does.

With Gankademy

These are the figures of Gankademy’s Jinx page. In champion select, the draft gives each option’s record against your lane opponent; once you lock, one click imports a suggested rune page into the client. In game, the reminder shows your build and your CS per minute; after it, the film narrated by your coach pauses on each decision. The draft · The coaches · What it reads.

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