Maokai vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Maokai
based on 17,413 Maokai vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Jhin
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Maokai against Jhin matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Jhin. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Jhin
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Who is Better, Maokai or Jhin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Jhin, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a good counter for Jhin.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate than Jhin, when facing one another, Maokai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Jhin.
Furthermore, Maokai has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Jhin matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Maokai is a good counter for Jhin. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Maokai to counter Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Jhin. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai versus Jhin build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Jhin than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% battling Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Jhin as Maokai, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Maokai vs Jhin counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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