Possible Jhin counterpick

Chibi Bronzlife·2/18/2017, 8:22:48 PM·1 votes·1,091 views

So I just saw this in a flex queue game, but our ADC pulled out Kindred into the enemy Jhin. While in theory this doesn't seem like a counter pick especially in flex, I think it would be a stronger counter in solo.

Here are the primary reasons:

1: Kindred has free scaling 2: Kindred has more mobility 3: Kindred can cancel out the effectiveness of Jhin Ult in lane. I understand that if Jhin is using it as an engage tool you will maybe still get run down if your team isn't there for back up. 4: synergizes well with lockdown supports like Malz and Zyra, even Morg but she's not that meta atm.

Things to keep in mind: 1: I haven't seen much Kindred play in awhile outside of this game, so I don't know how well her kit is tuned for the current state of the game 2: I am not sure if Kindred benefits from the lethality build like Jhin, Varus, and MF

16 Comments

420 grams2/18/2017, 8:28:19 PM1 votes

I don't think it's good because the passive is hard to stack as a laner

Umbral Regent2/18/2017, 9:57:51 PM1 votes

Honestly, the best counter-picks to Jhin are aggressive ADCs - the likes of Caitlyn, Sivir, and Lucian - who can really just get in and start laying into him before he can ready his fourth shot.

MunchCrunchLunch2/18/2017, 11:33:57 PM1 votes

jhin is weird. he doesn't have to deal exactly with enemy adc. because he ults from far away. ezreal does well against him because its very hard to kill ezreal with his ult and ezreal can simply just poke from far with Q

ezreal is the best that can deal with jhin. also twitch works he can Q from behind and kill jhin.

l Dárius l2/18/2017, 11:57:19 PM1 votes

Kindred counters Jhin? Wow, then you should just play Kalista because she has been the established Jhin counter for a long time for pretty much the same reasons you stated and she is balanced around LANING and not JUNGLING

meowwow72/19/2017, 12:24:29 AM1 votes

a good counter to jhin but from my support view is morg, ali, and galio. galio's w prevents his hp from dipping low if jhin ults morg because of the spell shield mostly and ali because you can bait him to engage on you with his w ult out of it and do your combo with little to no reaction time for him to do anything