Viktor vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Viktor
based on 6,135 Viktor vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Jhin Counter Build
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Core Viktor Items
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Jhin
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some significant Viktor vs. Jhin matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin..
Viktor often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Jhin
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Who is Better, Viktor or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually loses when playing against Jhin, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Viktor makes a poor counter for Jhin.
While Viktor does have a lower winrate compared to Jhin, when facing one another, Viktor also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Viktor into Jhinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Viktor has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a somewhat poor counter to Jhin. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Jhin. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Viktor versus Jhin build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Viktor included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Jhin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Jhin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Jhin as Viktor, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Viktor vs Jhin battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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