📜 Jaina — "The Frost Mage of the Nexus" ❄️✨

🧬 Who is Jaina?

Jaina Proudmoore, once a peaceful diplomat, now channels her arcane mastery into devastating frost magic after Theramore’s destruction. In the Nexus, she’s a glass cannon burst mage specializing in slows, area control, and combo-based destruction. If you love turning enemies into frozen statues before shattering them with explosive damage, Jaina is your ice queen.

Main Roles:
❄️ Burst Mage | 🧊 Zone Controller | 💙 Team Fight Decimator

🛠️ Abilities (Quick Look)

Frostbite (Trait – D): Spells apply Chill, slowing enemies and increasing damage they take.
Frostbolt (Q): Launches a freezing projectile that damages and slows.
Blizzard (W): Summons an ice storm that strikes 3 times, slowing and damaging.
Cone of Cold (E): Blast of frigid air in a cone that damages and slows.
Ring of Frost (R1): Creates a ring that roots enemies who cross it.
Water Elemental (R2): Summons an elemental that attacks and slows enemies.

🎮 Gameplay Guide

Jaina excels at controlling the battlefield with her slows and bursting down priority targets with her devastating ability combos.

✅ Early Game

Use Frostbolt to poke and slow enemies in lane.
Conserve mana with careful spell usage.
Set up ganks with your slows.

✅ Teamfights

Position safely behind your frontline.
Look for opportunities to hit multiple enemies with Blizzard and Cone of Cold.
Layer your abilities to maximize your Frostbite trait bonus damage.
Use Ring of Frost for setup or Water Elemental for sustained damage.

✅ Objective Control

Zone enemies with Blizzard during objective contests.
Use Ring of Frost to secure objectives.
Clear waves quickly with your AoE abilities to maintain map pressure.

🛡️ Builds & Gameplay Focus

⚔️ Full Burst Combo Build

Level 1: Fingers of Frost
Level 4: Arcane Intellect
Level 7: Ice Lance
Level 10: Ring of Frost
Level 13: Icy Veins
Level 16: Northern Exposure
Level 20: Wintermute

Focus: Massive Burst, Single-Target Deletion, Combo Mastery

The Lowdown:
This build transforms Jaina into a one-woman apocalypse — a frost mage capable of deleting priority targets before they can even react. Your game plan is simple but deadly: position carefully, find the right moment, then unleash a perfectly chained combo that turns enemies into frozen corpses. You’re not here for sustained damage or poke wars. You exist to make the enemy team’s health bars vanish in a spectacular display of frost magic.

With Ring of Frost as your ultimate, you gain incredible setup potential for your combos. When enemies are trapped in your icy prison, they’re sitting ducks for your full damage rotation. The build focuses on maximizing single-target burst while still providing formidable AoE damage in teamfights. Northern Exposure at 16 is your power spike — applying vulnerability that amplifies not just your damage, but your entire team’s output.

The Core Loop & Synergy:

Fingers of Frost (1) extends your slow duration and grants bonus range.
Arcane Intellect (4) solves mana issues when hitting chilled targets.
Ice Lance (7) resets Frostbolt cooldown for sustained damage.
Ring of Frost (10) sets up devastating combo potential.
Icy Veins (13) provides CDR burst for full ability rotations.
Northern Exposure (16) makes enemies take 25% more damage from all sources.
Wintermute (20) doubles your burst with elemental mimicry.

Key Tactics & Pro Tips:

Standard combo: Frostbolt (to apply chill) → Blizzard → Cone of Cold.
For maximum burst: Ring of Frost → Blizzard → Frostbolt → Cone of Cold.
Use Icy Veins when you need to quickly delete a high-value target.
Position aggressively only when you have escape options or team protection.

In short: You’re the delete button. You calculate, you wait, you position, then you make enemies disappear.

⚔️ Sustained Damage & Control Build

Level 1: Winter’s Reach
Level 4: Frost Armor
Level 7: Icefury Wand
Level 10: Water Elemental
Level 13: Storm Front
Level 16: Numbing Blast
Level 20: Deep Chill

Focus: Battlefield Control, Survivability, Sustained Damage

The Lowdown:
This build transforms Jaina from a pure burst mage into a battlefield controller with impressive staying power. Rather than focusing solely on one-shot combos, you become a constant threat through enhanced slows, improved survivability, and sustained damage output. Perfect for teams that already have burst damage covered or against dive compositions where you need self-protection, this build lets you dictate the pace of fights while remaining surprisingly resilient.

Water Elemental serves as both an additional damage source and a persistent slow applier, making it nearly impossible for enemies to escape your frost grip. Frost Armor and Storm Front give you the tools to survive aggressive dives while maintaining safe positioning. By level 16, with Numbing Blast, your Cone of Cold becomes a mini-stun that can interrupt crucial abilities or buy precious seconds for your team.

Where the burst build makes you fear for your life with every engagement, this build lets you confidently maintain map presence, control objectives, and contribute consistently throughout extended fights.