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.
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several critical Jhin vs. Vel'Koz counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz..
Jhin normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jhin usually wins when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Jhin makes a good counter for Vel'Koz.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Jhin also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Jhin into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Jhin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Vel'Koz 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Jhin is an above average counter to Vel'Koz. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Jhin against Vel'Koz.
If you would like to truly master Jhin to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin usually gets more CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Jhin versus Vel'Koz build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Jhin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Jhin had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Vel'Koz 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Jhin vs Vel'Koz fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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