Alistar vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Alistar
based on 6,813 Alistar vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Jhin
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Alistar against Jhin counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Jhin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Jhin
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Who is Better, Alistar or Jhin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jhin, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter for Jhin.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate than Jhin, when facing one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Jhinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Jhin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often gets a lot less CS as Jhin. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Alistar versus Jhin build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Jhin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 49.0% when countering Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Jhin as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Alistar vs Jhin counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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