Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Jhin places invisible traps around the map. Watch where you step!
Deadly Flourish only roots those hit by one of Jhin's basic attacks, traps, or allies within the last 4 seconds.
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.
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Akali versus Jhin matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin..
Akali usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Jhin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jhin, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes an ok counter for Jhin.
While Akali does have a lower winrate than Jhin, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Jhinas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Jhin. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Jhin.
To truly master Akali to counter Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Jhin. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Akali versus Jhin build consist of Night Harvester, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Jhin than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Jhin with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Jhin as Akali, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akali vs Jhin fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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