Talk:Sivir/@comment-24496127-20160509071531/@comment-1920550-20160722214855

Because damage wise SIvir is top 3 in terms of being item-dependant, with only Cait and Kog being above her. Early game she is super dependant on landing her Q face-first onto a target and getting W poke. Add to the fact that she needs crit items to get rolling and that is one of the slower builds to pick up the pace and it gets tricky. Early game you are a farm bot and a nitro boost, simple as that.

And the reason she feels so weak in pure 1v1 is because of how low her base attack speed and attack speed growth are. While her Q-AA-reset-AA is actually quite potent burst wise especially if she gets a Shiv and some crits on top of it, if the fight gets prolonged she loses because her steroid after 3 autos.

To counter balance that, she has ABSURD amounts of AOE damage, due to how her crits work with her W. That reason alone makes her better than Jinx in terms of teamfights, especially because her autos can actually hit the backline, if the enemy team is remotely clumped up and they hurt alot.