Jhin vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Jhin
based on 10,280 Jhin vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Sona
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 Sona
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
Jhin vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Jhin versus Sona counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Jhin often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Sona
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Who is Better, Jhin or Sona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Jhin makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Jhin does have a higher win rate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Jhin also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Sona.
Furthermore, Jhin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Sona matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Jhin is a decent counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jhin against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jhin in order to counter Sona during both the early game 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 here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin often gets much more CS as Sona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of 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 Jhin versus Sona build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Jhin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jhin boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Sona as Jhin, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Jhin vs Sona LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sona as Jhin are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.