Varus vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Varus
based on 19,593 Varus vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Jhin
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Varus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several critical Varus versus Jhin counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jhin..
Varus normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Jhin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Jhin
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Who is Better, Varus or Jhin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when trying to fight Jhin, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a poor counter for Jhin.
While Varus does have a lower win rate than Jhin, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Varus into Jhin.
Furthermore, Varus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jhin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Varus vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Varus is a terribly counter to Jhin. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Jhin.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
Additional Information for Varus Players
How We Calculated Our Varus vs Jhin Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Varus to counter Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Jhin. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Varus versus Jhin build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Jhin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Jhin with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Jhin as Varus, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Varus vs Jhin battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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