Nami vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Nami
based on 12,405 Nami vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Jhin
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Nami in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Nami against Jhin matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Jhin
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Who is Better, Nami or Jhin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually loses when taking on Jhin, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a bad counter for Jhin.
While Nami does have a lower win rate compared to Jhin, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nami into Jhin.
Furthermore, Nami also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nami is a bad counter to Jhin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nami against Jhin.
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How We Calculated Our Nami vs Jhin Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami typically gets a lot less CS compared to Jhin. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nami versus Jhin build consist of Ardent Censer, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Jhin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Jhin with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Jhin as Nami, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nami vs Jhin battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jhin as Nami are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.