[S7] Jing Wei - Incoming! (Guide, builds and tips)

Hi! Feel welcome to my Jing Wei guide. I wanted to bring this up because she doesn't receives the love she deserves, she is well placed in the meta and her playstyle is different from other hunters. I'm FootFetish, a really active user in this site and very humble for my guides, which i'll leave some of my guides at the end of this guide, if you wish to search for more of my work. (Sorry for the cheap spam)
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Jing Wei The Oathkeeper STATS Level 1 Health 523 Mana 241 Movement speed 370 Range 55 Attack speed 1.01 Basic attack damage 41 +100% of Physical Power Magical protections 31 Physical protections 14 HP5 7.68 MP5 4.7 Level 20 Health 2005 Mana 925 Movement speed 370 Range 55 Attack speed 1.28 Basic attack damage 92.3 +100% of Physical Power Magical protections 48.1 Physical protections 69.1 HP5 20.6 MP5 10.4

Rapid Reincarnation Passive - - Leaving the fountain, Jing Wei receives crowd control immunity as she ascends to the skies of the battleground. She receives a short ammount of time to fly across any obstacle with increased movement speed before landing at a chosen area, otherwise if the ability reaches maximum range it will land automatically. - - Duration: 4 seconds. - -

Persistent gust First ability Jing creates a wind gust that damages and knocks enemies up when casted. The gust persists for 6 seconds, dealing minor damage to enemies in the area each second. Jing Wei can stand on the gust; when done, she will be knocked up and receive an attack speed boost that remains for 7 seconds. Initial Damage: 90/140/190/240/290 (+90%) Damage Per Tick: 10/20/30/40/50 (+5%) Attack Speed Buff: 20/25/30/35/40%. Cooldown: 14 seconds.

Explosive bolts Second ability - - Jing Wei boosts her bow. Now, she has 3 empowered attacks. These will hit in a 8-unit radius around the first enemy hit, and they will receive increased critical strike chance. Note: This ability instantly goes on cooldown when activating it, even if you haven't wasted any attack of this ability. - - Critical strike chance: 0/5/10/15/20% Cooldown: 14 seconds. - - -

Agility Third ability Jing Wei dashes forward to a short distance. After finishing the dash, she receives additional movement speed and physical power for a determinated duration. Jing Wei can escape from any kind of knock-ups with this ability. If she does such thing, the movement speed and physical power buff are increased. Note: this ability interacts with Persistent Gust. Range: 35 Air range: 55 Power buff: 10/15/20/25/30 Air power buff: 20/25/30/35/40 Movement buff: 20%. Air buff: 30%. Cooldown: 18/18/17/17/16 seconds.

Air Strike Ultimate ability Jing Wei prepares briefly to dash up and forward, damaging all enemies in the area below her with three shots. Jing Wei is crowd control immune while dashing, and crowd control immune while charging up the ability. When she finishes casting the shots, she can pick a location where she wants to land for two seconds before being automatically forced to land in the area she is pointing to. Damage: 220/310/400/490/580 (+100%) Cooldown: 90 seconds.

PROS: > Insane built-in steroids. > Great late game. > Incredible mobility. > CC immunity. > Decent crowd control. > Can't get behind ( Rapid Reincarnation). > Good objective secure.

CONS: - - > Long cooldowns. > Bad lane clear. > Questionable early game. > Squishy. > No useful passive in 1v1. - -

Early game:

In the very early game, Jing Wei has a unique strenght: she can fight as much as she wants and go back to base and return via passive, Rapid Reincarnation. This said, you should abuse it! Ask your support to help you with the aggression since you don't have a really good early game damage and if you take too much damage or lose too much mana you should just go back to base and refuel! You can abuse from your passive. Took too much damage? Back. You're playing from behind and can't reach the wave for XP? Back. Finished killing an objective and need to go to a teamfight? Back. Need to kill titan? Back. Nah, just kidding. But you get the point, right? It's very easy with Jing Wei to aggress people because her passive gives her invulnerabilities in the early game. That's something that has helped her climb the meta; slowly, but gently.
This early game pressure boost takes us to the next point to explore in the early game, which is something very important for a duo laner:

Mid game:

Mid game is where you start stucking all together and showing your real potential. You already have penetration (i hope you do), and a bunch of power from Devourer's Gauntlet stacks, which means you can already do consistent damage. Your DPS is high enough to survive in teamfights and your lifesteal is perfect to take 1v1 fights and trade with the enemies, or turning around a gank. Anyways, some mid-game focused characters can deal perfectly with you, such as Bastet or Neith, which means you still have to be careful.
In the mid game, rotations are very important and these will decide your late game. As an ADC, you have to know when to rotate to not lose any farm and mantain your lead. I'll give you some tricks for rotating succesfully:

ROTATING

Rotating is hard to understand and learn, at least when you're ADC, and the late game depends on you. To learn how to rotate, ignore totally everyone's calls, and ask yourself three questions:



How valuable is for me to rotate?

What potential do I have to succeed in the rotation?

Will i lose a lot of farm?

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Evaluate the situation:

As you should understand by now, asking yourself questions is very important. How is my team doing? How is the enemy team doing? Level differences? Items? Leads?... Asking yourself questions will help you performing better.
Now, you have to carefully determine if your enemy deserves your help. If your team wants your rotation to get rid of the enemy jungler for invading the blue buff, let them be. You can't just travel across the map for a kill and a buff.
But now, if your support calls you to mid lane for a teamfight or to steal an objective (or killing an objective), you'll have to rotate. These are important things that you need to help your team, since you have insane DPS and high sustain with your lifesteal. You are the only member of the team that can do an objective by yourself or after a fight. This means that if your team needs you for specific and important things, assist them.

However, if you're behind, you can rotate to kill just an enemy or to defend another lane, since these are things that can get you slightly and slowly ahead, and make you perform better in the late game.

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Know your enemies

Another important thing is to know your enemies. In the mid game, some gods are more powerful than others, of course. This means that you have to know your ally's potential and your enemy's potential, and know what each god can do. If you have an allied aggressive support, such as Ymir or Bacchus, and an enemy late game assassin like Nemesis, it's enough to rotate. You will mostly succeed. Nothing is guaranteed; the enemy can pop up from somewhere and kill you, but you can't live without trying, amirite?
If you have a Bastet, character that is mostly talented in the mid game, as an enemy, and an Aphrodite as a mid laner, which is a late game character, don't rotate. Let the support, which is tanky and can take a lot of damage (most of the times) do his job.

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Pros & Cons of rotating

As Jing Wei, as i told you before, your main mission is arrive to late game. There, you will show your real strenghts. But now, rotating puts a barrier in this objective. It denies your farm for a while, and you do waste your farm helping your teammates but that can't always work to the perfection. This is why you have to know what are the strenghts and weaknesses of rotating. You must know that you will lose farm by all terms. This means that you will have to think if the rotation is valuable, as we saw in the last part. Rotating also implies moving around the map, which can succeed in giving you farm from jungle camps or the mid lane, or even an objective. This means that you will lose some useful farm, but may win some more by reward of rotating.
Another pro when rotating, is that after a teamfight, as i told you, you are the only one that can kill an objective with no help from teammates. This means that if the rotations succeeds, you might give your team a big advantage by awarding you and them with cash-cash. But, when the rotation gets turned around, you might die, and all this will go directly to the trash can.

So remember, rotating isn't always going to succeed, so evaluate your farm and see who will be affected more if you rotate; you, or the enemy team.

Late game:

Now, this is straight up simple. You don't need to ask questions for this part. All you have to do is group up with your team, and get 'em!
Now you're the mother, the *****, the queen, the powerhouse. You rule in the late game.
If you arrived to late game, you can do whatever you want to do. You have crazy DPS, dumb mobility and even objective securing and crowd control. If you know how to use it for you and your team's benefit, you will destroy!




Well, but not so fast. There are some things you need to know; which are very important.

Tips for Jing Wei

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Jing Wei relies a lot from her abilities, altough confusedly being a basic attack based hunter. She has a lot of stims and self-buffs in her abilities, which means that in your build you won't include so much critical strike chance ( ) or attack speed ( ). This can be dangerous, because when your abilities (or mostly your steroids) are on cooldown, you will be slightly weaker than other hunters, altough still being very strong.
There is nothing to do to deal with this, but just focus your build in filling the pieces that your abilities in cooldown can't fill.

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Mostly, as Jing Wei, you have to know when to give your Persistent Gust + Agility combo. This combo drains a lot of mana; which means that when you can be in potential danger you have to save your mana.
My tip for this is to use Agility without Persistent Gust. Agility is still a dash; which means you will be moving a few units, and with the unique steroid this ability gives, you also have a movement speed boost. Anyways, if you have mana, try to use both of your abilities together to be away from danger faster.
My quick solution for this problem is always have a Mana Potion or a Multi Potion in hand.

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When fighting, is more valuable to use your abilities to stim yourself, and not to damage the enemy. What i mean with this, is that Persistent Gust might be used when you can damage the enemy and you can safely knock yourself up and dash to get the power buff and attack speed steroid. This will increase very significantly your DPS, and allow you to kill or damage enemies quicklier and more effectively.

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Don't be scared to abuse your Rapid Reincarnation! This is something i see constantly with Jing Wei players. Nobody will take it away from you. Back whenever you need to. This will give you a bunch of advantages when facing your enemy, such as never losing your farm, or being almost unkillable for your short appereances in lane.
I personally like to back whenever i have 1500 gold or more, but when i'm behind i back whenever i need to. Even if i just want to do back camps, i back, travel to back camps, back and travel back to lane.