Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Hecarim vs. Jhin counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin..
Hecarim typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Jhin. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when facing off against Jhin, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a bad counter for Jhin.
While Hecarim does have a lower win rate than Jhin, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Hecarim into Jhin.
Moreover, Hecarim also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Hecarim is a garbage counter for Jhin. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hecarim against Jhin.
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to counter Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often racks up a lot less CS relative to Jhin. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Hecarim versus Jhin build include Spear of Shojin, Eclipse, and Serylda's Grudge. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Jhin than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Jhin as Hecarim, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Hecarim vs Jhin fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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