Jhin vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Jhin
based on 6,813 Jhin vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Alistar
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Jhin vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some strategic Jhin versus Alistar matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Jhin usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Alistar
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Who is Better, Jhin or Alistar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Jhin makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Jhin also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jhin into Alistar.
Additionally, Jhin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Alistar matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Jhin is a decent counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Jhin against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jhin to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin usually gets much more CS relative to Alistar. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Jhin versus Alistar build include Rapid Firecannon, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Jhin included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Alistar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Jhin boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Alistar as Jhin, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jhin vs Alistar battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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