Jinx
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Excellent (9.5/10)
Low Investment
Jinx is an exceptionally powerful, low-investment champion capable of speedrunning most content. Players disagree about her overall playstyle. Some consider her straightforward, spell-slinging approach highly efficient and enjoyable, while others find the repetitive nature of discarding hands and pinging the Nexus to be linear.
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 by capitalizing on her inherent Plunder triggers.
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.
Monthly Challenge Control
- Instantly empties the hand upon summon, enabling a rapid level-up and generating Pow-Pows for direct Nexus damage.
Generates a Fleeting copy of Jinx in hand each round, providing continuous access to the champion and extra cards to discard.
Reduces Jinx's cost by 2 on Plunder, allowing her to be played earlier and more frequently.
Strategy
Designed for difficult Monthly Challenges with restrictive mutators like 'Small Stuff'. The Scourge's Stash reduces Jinx's cost for early deployment.
The Grand General's Counterplan provides a Fleeting copy of Jinx each round, ensuring continuous access to her summon effect and extra cards to discard for 'Get Excited!'.
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.
Ensures Jinx can attack safely while setting up the revival 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.
Zoe Specialized
Zoe Specialized
Reduces Jinx's cost to 0, allowing her to bypass Zoe's Nexus damage immunity and clear the board immediately.- Essential for generating Pow-Pows to control the board until Zoe's landmark expires.
- Provides crucial resilience against Zoe's high-stat units and allows for repeated summon triggers.
Strategy
Specifically tailored for the 10-star Zoe adventure, where the enemy Nexus is immune to damage until the landmark expires. Disciple of Shadows allows Jinx to be played for 0 mana, enabling immediate board clear and progression towards her level-up without relying on Nexus damage.
Guardian Angel provides crucial resilience against Zoe's high-stat units and allows Jinx to be repeatedly summoned for continuous board control.
Other Relic Options
Directly amplifies the damage of all generated Pow-Pows and Super Mega Death Rockets.
Makes Pow-Pow cost 0 and draw a card, enabling rapid hand cycling and continuous discard triggers.
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.
Grants a Rally upon leveling up, enabling an immediate attack phase after Jinx clears the enemy board with her initial burst.
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.
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.
Sorcery
Round Start: Refill your spell mana.Review
Gaining Sorcery allows Jinx to immediately cast her generated Pow-Pows upon deployment, significantly improving her Turn 1 consistency and reducing the need for mana-refill relics.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Get Jinxed!
Your spells and skills deal double damage.Review
Get Jinxed! doubles spell and skill damage. This upgrade is critical for overcoming high-health enemies and Tough Nexuses, transforming her into a dominant force in the most challenging adventures.
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.
- I Am Inevitable Anti-Synergy
Avoid the "I Am Inevitable" mutator (often found in the Lissandra adventure), which grants enemy units +2|+2 and Tough when they survive damage. Jinx's random 1-damage pings will rapidly buff the enemy board out of control.
- 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.