Xayah vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Xayah
based on 6,370 Xayah vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Jhin
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Xayah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Xayah versus Jhin matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between these two champs. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jhin..
Xayah usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Jhin
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Who is Better, Xayah or Jhin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Jhin, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a poor counter for Jhin.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate than Jhin, when facing one another, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Xayah into Jhin.
Moreover, Xayah has only a small 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xayah is a trash counter to Jhin. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jhin. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Xayah versus Jhin build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Xayah used at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Jhin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 46.5% battling Jhin with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Jhin as Xayah, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Xayah vs Jhin counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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