Akshan vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Akshan
based on 8,016 Akshan vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Jhin
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Jhin
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.
Akshan vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Akshan versus Jhin matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between these two champions. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Jhin..
Akshan often has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Jhin
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Who is Better, Akshan or Jhin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Jhin, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a bad counter to Jhin.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Jhin, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Jhin.
Additionally, Akshan has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Jhin. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually gets a similar amount of CS as Jhin. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Jhin build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs Jhin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 48.9% when countering Jhin with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Jhin as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Akshan vs Jhin counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jhin as Akshan are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.