While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
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.
The stats shown here feature several vital Nautilus against Jhin matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jhin. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Jhin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when trying to fight Jhin, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a poor counter to Jhin.
While Nautilus does have a lower win rate compared to Jhin, when on opposite teams, Nautilus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nautilus into Jhin.
Additionally, Nautilus also has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a somewhat poor counter to Jhin. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Jhin.
To truly master Nautilus in order to counter Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus typically gets a lot less CS relative to Jhin. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nautilus versus Jhin build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Jhin than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Jhin with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Jhin as Nautilus, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nautilus vs Jhin counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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