Gnar vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Gnar
based on 4,597 Gnar vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Jhin
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some significant Gnar against Jhin matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jhin..
Gnar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Jhin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Jhin
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Who is Better, Gnar or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Jhin, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter to Jhin.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Jhin, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Jhinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Gnar is a terribly counter to Jhin. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jhin. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gnar versus Jhin build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Jhin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Jhin with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Jhin as Gnar, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Gnar vs Jhin fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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