Zed vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Zed
based on 6,898 Zed vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Jinx
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Jinx
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
Zed vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Zed versus Jinx matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jinx..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Jinx. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Jinx
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Who is Better, Zed or Jinx?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jinx, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Jinx.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Jinx, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Zed into Jinxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Jinx matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Jinx. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Jinx during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Jinx. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zed versus Jinx build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Jinx than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Jinx with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Jinx as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Zed vs Jinx clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jinx as Zed are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.