Katarina vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Katarina
based on 15,122 Katarina vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Jhin
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Katarina vs. Jhin matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jhin..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Jhin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Jhin
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Who is Better, Katarina or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Jhin, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter to Jhin.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Jhin, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Jhinas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Jhin. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Jhin. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Katarina versus Jhin build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Jhin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Jhin with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Jhin as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Jhin face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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