Jhin vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Jhin
based on 14,638 Jhin vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Jhin vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Jhin versus Garen counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between these two champs. For instance, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Jhin normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Garen
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Who is Better, Jhin or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jhin usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Jhin makes a good counter for Garen.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Jhin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Garen.
Moreover, Jhin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Garen matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Jhin is a decent counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jhin against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jhin in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Jhin versus Garen build include Rapid Firecannon, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Jhin bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Jhin boasted an average win rate of 51.7% battling Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Garen as Jhin, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Jhin vs Garen LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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