Nidalee vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Nidalee
based on 3,072 Nidalee vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Jhin
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature several significant Nidalee against Jhin matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jhin..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Jhin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Jhin
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Jhin?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Jhin, with a 44.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Jhin.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Jhin, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Jhinas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Jhin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often gets a lot less CS compared to Jhin. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Jhin build include Lich Bane, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Jhin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 44.8% when countering Jhin with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Jhin as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Nidalee vs Jhin battles, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jhin as Nidalee are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.