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Recommended Items
Runes: Standard
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
Spells:
Flash
Heal
Items
Threats & Synergies
Yasuo
For some unknown reason, Yasuo blocks every single ability Jhin has on a 20 second cooldown, even his W which is a hitscan. Number one ban priority, even on Bot lane. Jhin can literally deal with every other champion in the game, but against Yasuo, you will be the one with the 0/10/0 powerspike. Don't even think about it, BAN.
Nautilus
Easily the best support for Jhin. You may guarantee yourself a won lane if Nautilus is picked.
Nautilus
Easily the best support for Jhin. You may guarantee yourself a won lane if Nautilus is picked.
Champion Build Guide
Hello, and welcome to my guide on how to play Jhin!
My name is Sotos and I am a Jhin main. I've been maining him for 5 years now, and I am celebrating the occasion by writing this very guide. This guide is skewed for anyone looking to start playing what I think is the best champion ever made by Riot and will probably never be topped, and as such share my excitement playing him with you, the reader. Keep in mind however, that I am a low elo player, so take my opinions with a pinch of salt; I wrote this guide based purely off of my own experience, and if I can help at least one person learn how to play him, then I consider this guide a major success. I really hope that everyone can learn from what I have to say here, and also hope that you will love Jhin as much as I do. Now, let's get to it!
Jhin is NOT your typical ADC.
Jhin's secondary class is Catcher, the same class of champion Lux and Morgana are. This is due to him having some of the longest-range abilities in the game, his W being the longest non-global basic ability in the game. Let's get more into what his abilities do, in detail:
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Jhin gains no attack speed except from growth, going from 0.625 AS on level 1 to 0.944 on level 18. Instead, any bonus attack speed he gains goes into his Innate: Every Moment Matters: He gains 4%-44% bonus attack damage, which can be increased by 30% of his crit chance and 25% of his bonus attack speed. That makes Jhin the champion with the highest AD gain in the entire game. However, his innate crit damage is decreased from the normal 175% to 150.5% (+34.4% with
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His Innate: Death in Four Acts is perhaps the most recognisable part of his kit: His pistol,
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Jhin throws a bouncing canister that can bounce off of enemies four times, dealing physical damage to them, and increasing such damage if the previous bounce kills its enemy, by 35% of the base damage on each bounce. Its base damage is 44/69/94/119/144, increased by 44/51.5/59/66.5/74% AD and 60% AP. It is Jhin's bread and butter ability, and is msot commonly used in between his auto attacks to increase his fourth shot damage. If properly set up, he can bounce it off of 3 near-death minions and into an enemy chamption for a lot of damage. It's like Miss Fortune's Q, only cooler...!
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Jhin's W has a passive and active component to it: Its passive marks: Any enemy champion damaged by Jhin or his allies, or any enemy champion that steps on his lotus traps, for four seconds. Its active component allows Jhin to fire a shot in a straight line, dealing 60/95/130/165/200 (+50% tAD) physical damage to any enemy it passes through, stopping at an enemy champion. If it hits a champion marked by this ability's passive component, it roots them for 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25 seconds and procs his on-crit bonus movement speed steroid. Another very important ability for Jhin, as it lets him combo with his support's crowd control abilities to maximize their effectiveness, and with a range of about 2500 units (stretching to more than a screen's worth of range!), that makes it one of if not the longest non-global basic ability in the game. It is also very good for executing enemies far away later in the game, especially amplified if you take Dark Harvest with him, and also to catch up with an enemy you want to kill if you root them, since you also gain quite a bit of movespeed when you consume a mark. It's what truly makes Jhin also be a Catcher champion, much like Xerath is. And since it's a hitscan, it can go through Samira's W, but not Yasuo's windwall for some reason...
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Jhin throws out a white lotus trap on top of your cursor. The lotus trap detonates whenever any enemy unit steps on it, dealing 20/80/140/200/260 damage plus 120% AD and 100% AP physical damage to it, and if it's a champion, it marks said champion for his W to root them. This is a very good ability to place strategically, to avoid would-be ganks or to place in front of you when engaged in a chase, so you can hopefully hit your W when they step on the lotus trap, to make your grand escape. It requires, and rewards those who are patient, as a good artist uses his traps to craft a master plan that will allow him to not just create art, but also win some well-earned LP too. Use your traps well, and your hard work will pay off in a very, very, very, VERY spectacular fashion.
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"Prepare... for your finale."
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In order for one to master Jhin, one must master the art of combo-making.
Jhin relies on his combos and the follow-ups of his allies. He excels at extending CC durations using his
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Ah, Jhin's best item. What more needs to be said about Infinity Edge? It is the best AD item for Jhin as it gives him 2 of his 3 most favorite stats: AD and Critical Chance, and gets 40% more crit damage as a bonus! What's not to like? It is my prefered first item on him if I am not on a gold deficit, as it helps make him do so much damage with just 3400 gold... Okay that's expensive, but you still get 3800 gold worth of stats for a bit less, so it's more than worth it if you're filthy rich in the early game, or desperately need a ton more damage in your second or third item. There's so much to say about Infinity Edge, but I am gonna wrap it up by saying this: I am so glad that they added the 80 AD back, the mythic era IE just wasn't cutting it...
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Remember how I said above that Infinity Edge gives Jhin 2 of his 3 favorite stats in one? Well, The Collector gives all three: AD, Crit Chance, and Lethality! The addition of Lethality makes Collector another very solid choice for a first item, as early Lethality is very good against squishies, and it also has an execute passive: Any enemy champion damaged by its holder that falls below 5% health gets executed, and the holder gains 25 additional gold for every kill. That's one free kill every 12 kills! Its build path consisting of longswords also makes it a good first item if you don't have enough gold for a BF Sword (another Collector component), so that you don't stay behind in items at all. Definitely an item that both Jhin and I love, it's so good that it honestly deserves its recent nerfs.
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Extended attack range. Need I say more? While not as good as its midseason 14 version where it gave some AD, it does make up for it in more AS, resulting in more %AD and movement speed for Jhin, and you really can't go wrong with a passive that extends his attack range whenever Energized is stacked up, every time it's consumed dealing an additional 100 magic damage to its target. It's a very good utility item for Jhin as all of that allows him to play safer, and faster.
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