Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
Jhin places invisible traps around the map. Watch where you step!
Jhin's attacks are quite potent, but he runs out of ammo after the 4th shot. Use this window to jump him and burst him down.
Deadly Flourish only roots those hit by one of Jhin's basic attacks, traps, or allies within the last 4 seconds.
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Jinx versus Jhin counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jhin..
Jinx normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jinx usually fairs equally well when playing against Jhin, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Jinx makes an ok counter for Jhin.
While Jinx does have a lower winrate than Jhin, when on opposite teams, Jinx also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jinx into Jhin.
Moreover, Jinx has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Jinx is a somewhat poor counter for Jhin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Jinx against Jhin.
To truly master Jinx to counter Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Jhin. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of 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 Jinx versus Jhin build consist of Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Jinx combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Jhin than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Jinx boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Jhin with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Jhin as Jinx, Jinx players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Jinx vs Jhin battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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