Jinx

Jinx moves through the world in a storm of her own making, and she’s stopped pretending otherwise. Born of the undercity and impulsive to the core, she drags a past behind her that she can’t shake, though it has never once made her slow down.

She goes after Zaun and Piltover with a stash of homemade weapons, turning both cities into a show of her own design full of blasts, debris, and rebels who’ve been stirred up by what she leaves behind. For the people living on the margins who watch her tear through things, the wreckage doesn’t look like simple ruin. It looks like permission to fight back against whatever keeps them pinned down.

Three relationships have shaped her more than anything else she’s done:

• Vi — sisters who were once inseparable and are now strangers, pulled apart by everything that came after.
• Caitlyn — the sheriff who treats tracking Jinx down as nearly a personal crusade, and Jinx returns the obsession.
• Ekko — a friend from long before all of this, and one of the few links to her old life she hasn’t destroyed.

Her combat is as volatile as her backstory. Switcheroo! lets her trade between Pow-Pow, a minigun that builds Attack Speed the longer it keeps firing, and Fishbones, a rocket launcher that trades steady output for long range and heavy burst. Zap! unleashes a shock blast that slows a target so she can press in with confidence, while Flame Chompers! scatters grenades across the ground that root anyone unlucky enough to step on them. Her passive, Get Excited!, grants Move Speed and Attack Speed whenever she takes part in killing a monster, structure, or enemy champion, so every explosion she sets off becomes fuel for the next one. Her ultimate, Super Mega Death Rocket!, covers ground with a rocket that hits harder the farther it flies.

As a marksman, Jinx carries fights the same way other champions in her role do, yet very little about her approach resembles the usual playbook. Other marksmen find a steady rhythm, while she switches between two very different weapons in the middle of a clash, and where they play cautiously, she’s already several blasts ahead of plan. In its own chaotic way, it’s an honest reflection of who she is.