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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Jhin against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Jhin normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jhin usually wins when taking on Aphelios, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Jhin makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Jhin also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Jhin into Aphelios.
Moreover, Jhin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Aphelios matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Jhin is a good counter for Aphelios. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jhin against Aphelios.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jhin in order to counter Aphelios during both the laning 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 presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Jhin versus Aphelios build consist of Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Jhin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jhin boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Aphelios as Jhin, you should take 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Jhin vs Aphelios counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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