Jhin vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Jhin
based on 17,413 Jhin vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Jhin vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Jhin against Maokai matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Jhin normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jhin and Maokai
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Who is Better, Jhin or Maokai?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Jhin makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Jhin does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Jhin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Jhin into Maokai.
Moreover, Jhin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Jhin is a trash counter to Maokai. 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 Jhin against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jhin in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin often gets much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Jhin versus Maokai build include Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Jhin included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jhin had an average win rate of 47.3% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Maokai as Jhin, Jhin players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jhin vs Maokai face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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