Kayle vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Kayle
based on 12,519 Kayle vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Jhin
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Jhin
Jhin places invisible traps around the map. Watch where you step!
Jhin's attacks are quite potent, but he runs out of ammo after the 4th shot. Use this window to jump him and burst him down.
Deadly Flourish only roots those hit by one of Jhin's basic attacks, traps, or allies within the last 4 seconds.
Kayle vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Kayle versus Jhin matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jhin..
Kayle typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Jhin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Jhin
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Who is Better, Kayle or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jhin, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes an ok counter to Jhin.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Jhin, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Jhinas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This 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 Kayle vs Jhin matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kayle is a decent counter to Jhin. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle to counter Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Jhin. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayle versus Jhin build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Jhin than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 50.5% battling Jhin with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Jhin as Kayle, Kayle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kayle vs Jhin LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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