Jhin vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Jhin
based on 12,352 Jhin vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Jhin vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Jhin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Jhin vs. Rakan matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Jhin normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Rakan
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Who is Better, Jhin or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rakan, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Jhin makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Jhin does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Jhin also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Rakan.
Moreover, Jhin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This 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 in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Jhin is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jhin against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jhin in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin on average picks up much more CS as Rakan. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Jhin versus Rakan build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Jhin used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Jhin boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Rakan as Jhin, Jhin players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Jhin vs Rakan battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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