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.
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Jhin versus Zyra matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Jhin normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jhin usually fairs equally well when taking on Zyra, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Jhin makes an ok counter to Zyra.
While Jhin does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Jhin also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Zyra.
Additionally, Jhin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Jhin is a somewhat poor counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jhin against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jhin to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin typically racks up much more CS relative to Zyra. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Jhin versus Zyra build include The Collector, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Jhin used at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Zyra than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jhin boasted an average winrate of 49.2% battling Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Zyra as Jhin, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Jhin vs Zyra counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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