Jhin vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Jhin
based on 15,519 Jhin vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Jhin vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Jhin versus Zed matchup stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Jhin often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Zed. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Zed
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Who is Better, Jhin or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually wins when playing against Zed, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Jhin makes a good counter for Zed.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Jhin also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Jhin into Zed.
Moreover, Jhin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Zed matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Jhin is an above average counter to Zed. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jhin against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jhin in order to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Jhin versus Zed build consist of Rapid Firecannon, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Jhin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Zed than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Jhin had an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zed as Jhin, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Jhin vs Zed battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
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