Vel'Koz vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Vel'Koz
based on 8,737 Vel'Koz vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Jhin
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Vel'Koz versus Jhin counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jhin..
Vel'Koz often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Jhin
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when facing off against Jhin, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter for Jhin.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Jhin, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vel'Koz into Jhinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a bad counter to Jhin. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually picks up less CS compared to Jhin. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Jhin build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Jhin than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 47.6% battling Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Jhin as Vel'Koz, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Vel'Koz vs Jhin counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jhin as Vel'Koz are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.