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.
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Jhin vs. Yorick matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Jhin typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Yorick, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Jhin makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Jhin also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Yorick.
Moreover, Jhin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Yorick matchups, Jhin is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Jhin is a decent counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jhin against Yorick.
If you would like to truly master Jhin in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Yorick. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jhin versus Yorick build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Jhin used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jhin boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Yorick with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Yorick 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 runes we have analyed for Jhin vs Yorick battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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