Bard vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Bard
based on 12,637 Bard vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Jhin
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Bard vs. Jhin matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jhin. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Jhin
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Who is Better, Bard or Jhin?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jhin, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Bard makes an ok counter to Jhin.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Jhin, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Bard into Jhinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Jhin matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter for Jhin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Jhin. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Jhin build include Knight's Vow, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Jhin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 50.9% battling Jhin with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Jhin as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bard vs Jhin face-offs, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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