Jinx
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Excellent (8.5/10)
Low Investment
Rare Relics OK
Jinx is an incredibly powerful, low-investment champion capable of speedrunning most content. However, her highly linear, discard-focused playstyle is considered repetitive by some players.
Explosive Ordnance
Capitalizes on Jinx's inherent ability to easily trigger Plunder, allowing for an immediate Turn 1 deployment.
Her definitive core relic, instantly discarding the hand to generate Pow-Pows for massive direct Nexus damage.
Ensures consistent access to Jinx and provides additional copies to fuel her discard engine.
Strategy
This optimal setup maximizes Jinx's Turn 1 potential. Packed Powder enables an immediate deployment, while The Loose Cannon's Payload discards the hand to generate a barrage of Pow-Pows. Echoing Spirit guarantees Jinx is drawn consistently and provides extra fodder for her discard mechanics.
Infinite Payload
- Provides the initial burst of Pow-Pows and reactivates upon every revival.
Revives Jinx when she is destroyed, triggering her summon effects again.- Provides an additional revive to sustain the continuous damage loop.
Strategy
This build exploits revival mechanics for continuous burst damage. The strategy involves intentionally destroying Jinx—often using her own Pow-Pows—to trigger Guardian Angel. Upon reviving, The Loose Cannon's Payload reactivates, discarding the hand again and generating a completely new set of Pow-Pows. This loop can rapidly dismantle high-health opponents.
Zaunite Scavenger
- The essential engine for generating Pow-Pows and clearing the board.
Serves as a reliable cost-reduction tool to deploy Jinx early in the game.
Directly amplifies the damage of all generated Pow-Pows and Super Mega Death Rockets.
Strategy
This accessible build utilizes only rare relics while maintaining Jinx's core aggressive game plan. The Scourge's Stash acts as a budget alternative to Packed Powder, enabling early Jinx deployments. Luden's Tempest significantly increases her overall burst potential by boosting the damage of her generated spells.
Other Relic Options
Generates fleeting copies of Jinx each round, which can be played to repeatedly trigger The Loose Cannon's Payload effect.
Creates Warning Shots upon summon. When placed in a relic slot above The Loose Cannon's Payload, these are immediately discarded to generate additional Pow-Pows.
Highly effective for longer encounters, doubling the output of Pow-Pows and Rockets once the 6-mana threshold is reached.
Grants a Rally upon leveling up, enabling an immediate attack phase after Jinx clears the enemy board with her initial burst.
Refills spell mana upon summoning Jinx, ensuring sufficient resources are available to immediately cast the generated Pow-Pows.
Jinx's reliance on The Loose Cannon's Payload dictates most of her relic choices, prioritizing cost reduction, spell damage amplification, or revival mechanics to maximize its impact.
Constellation
Jinx is universally recognized as one of the strongest and most accessible champions in the game. Her constellation tree provides massive power spikes early on, making her a premier choice for newer accounts and a reliable carry for difficult content. Players disagree about her overall playstyle. Some consider her straightforward, spell-slinging approach highly efficient and enjoyable for speedrunning, while others find the repetitive nature of discarding hands and pinging the Nexus to be linear.
What's the Worst that Could Happen?
When you play or discard a card, deal 1 to enemy Nexus.
Wreak Havoc
+1 Starting Mana. When you level up a champion, create a Super Mega Death Rocket! in hand.
What's the Worst that Could Happen? II
When you play or discard a card, deal 1 to enemy Nexus and 1 to a random enemy.Review
Her baseline power is incredibly potent, allowing her to clear most standard adventures with ease by turning every played or discarded card into direct damage against the enemy Nexus and board.
Sorcery
Round Start: Refill your spell mana.Review
A highly recommended upgrade. It provides crucial spell mana and guarantees a Jury-Rig in the opening hand, significantly improving her consistency and enabling reliable Turn 1 Plunder triggers.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
While helpful for mana acceleration, this upgrade is often viewed as excessive given her already overwhelming power level at lower star levels.
Get Jinxed!
Your spells and Skills deal double damage.Review
A massive damage multiplier that doubles all spell and skill damage. This is essential for tackling the highest-difficulty Nightmare adventures where enemies possess inflated health pools, transforming her Pow-Pows into devastating nukes.
Gameplay Tips
- Turn 1 Plunder
Utilize Jinx's starting deck and powers to consistently trigger Plunder on Turn 1. This allows for immediate deployment if equipped with cost-reduction relics like Packed Powder or The Scourge's Stash.
- Beware of Tough
Jinx struggles significantly against enemies with the Tough keyword or a Tough Nexus, as it heavily mitigates her 1-damage pings. Prioritize drafting powers that increase spell damage or bypass Tough entirely.
- The Perfection Synergy
The Epic power "Perfection," which raises all damage dealt to a minimum of 4, is exceptionally powerful on Jinx. It transforms her small pings into massive bursts of damage and should be drafted whenever offered.
- Self-Destruction Tactics
When utilizing Guardian Angel, do not hesitate to use a Pow-Pow to destroy your own Jinx. Slaying her triggers the revive, which in turn reactivates The Loose Cannon's Payload for a fresh hand of removal spells.
- Created Card Counters
Avoid weekly adventures or mutators that increase the cost of created cards. These modifiers completely neutralize her ability to play Pow-Pows and Super Mega Death Rockets, shutting down her primary win condition.
- Relic Ordering Matters
If using Dreadway Chase Gun alongside The Loose Cannon's Payload, ensure Dreadway is placed in a higher relic slot. This guarantees the Warning Shots are generated before the hand is discarded, successfully converting them into Pow-Pows.