Leona vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Leona
based on 14,795 Leona vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Jhin
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Leona vs. Jhin counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jhin. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Jhin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Jhin
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Who is Better, Leona or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Jhin, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter for Jhin.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Jhin, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Jhin.
Moreover, Leona has a great deal 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Jhin matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter for Jhin. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Jhin 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 stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Jhin. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Leona versus Jhin build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Jhin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Jhin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Jhin as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona vs Jhin LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jhin as Leona are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.