Jhin vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Jhin
based on 14,795 Jhin vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Leona
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Jhin vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Jhin against Leona counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Jhin often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Leona
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Who is Better, Jhin or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jhin usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Jhin makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Jhin does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Jhin also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Leona.
Additionally, Jhin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Jhin is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jhin against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jhin in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin usually gets much more CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Jhin versus Leona build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Rapid Firecannon. When Jhin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Jhin had an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Leona as Jhin, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Gathering Storm, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Jhin vs Leona clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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