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Can someone explain this to me? Regards Jhin.

LuxannaVeritas·2/15/2016, 4:39:31 PM·3 votes·1,135 views

OK, I love Jhin. He's fun to play and he fits my play style. It's safe to say that he's one of my mains now.

I also love C9. #C9win every time.

However... can someone explain to me why they chose Jhin against Kalista? And picked Alistar with him?

First of all, I don't see Jhin as an aggressive ADC. He can have a really safe early game when played right against certain champions. Farm with Q, and E for information. I feel like his biggest counter WOULD be Kalista, since she can all-in him if she gets close enough. Jhin has low mobility, so Kalista can just leap to keep up with him.

Second of all, I play Jhin the best with ranged supports who can land ranged hits on enemy champions. That way Jhin can stun with his W. Morgana, Janna, and Sona are three examples. It's very hard to get a good hit with Alistar without engaging a fight. The only way I can see Alistar coming in handy is headbutting someone away, and then Jhin stunning the opponent with his W.

Don't get me wrong, I loved seeing Jhin in professional play. I just think it was under the wrong circumstances. I'm probably missing something, though, so can anyone explain to me why Jhin was picked against Kalista?

Thank you in advance!

7 Comments

TurquoiseYoshi2/15/2016, 6:11:27 PM3 votes

Two reasons:

1: Sneaky has been spamming Jhin and wanted a time to play him. 2: C9's draft was to throw off IMT's bot lane by banning out Adrian and playing a previously unseen champion. It failed, but they tried.

B00B002/15/2016, 5:04:04 PM1 votes

I think they tried a surprise pick as to throw immortals off and play more reserved but it didn't work quite as planned.

I can only assume the alistar was picked so he could stun multiple targets and then fire off an ult right into their face.

I'm not sure but I agree with you though but that's what I think, personally I want to see Sven on him he now has 4 penta kills already with him in challenger play, I think there is a comp for jhin to shine in its just going to take that one team to find it that's all

ZED G0D2/15/2016, 5:37:02 PM1 votes

Man, those LCS guys (double lift, Sneaky, Piglet, Bang, etc) can take almost any champ and play them in a lane that you'd think theyre F***ing insane to play. and win! they have all pretty much mastered game mechanics and counterplays...which is why I usually discourage people from trying to mimic what they see in LCS games...like when Faker went up against Irelia as Olaf mid and got first blood before level 6...which is NOT supposed to happen..ire is supposed to be able to destroy an olaf easily <level 3/6... LCS players can take champs to an entirely new level that we've never seen before

DestructoDave2/15/2016, 10:24:12 PM1 votes

It was a mistake on C9's part. If they wanted to test jhin, they should have done it vs a worse team. You could probably but most of the loss on Jhin, tbh. Esp. since they could have taken Kalista and Ali instead. It was a mistake. They got into their own heads. The sad thing is, only Rush got outplayed in the jungle. Balls was doing well top, Jensen was winning, and Sneaky/Hai was out-laning Turtle/Adrian even after a cheese lvl 1 kill. Jhin was just a really poor pick for that game. He sniped a few kills, but they had zero turret pressure because of him, and he didn't offer much in teamfights. Again, all he really did was snipe a guy here or there, something other ADCs could have done just the same and provided more constant DPS to the teamfights. Just imagine if Sneaky was on Lucian/MF/Caitlyn, hell even Draven. He would have offered so much more to the game. I dont think Sneaky or C9 played bad, but their teamfights would have went WAY better with a constant DPS ADC. Hell, even the kills that sneaky sniped, you could say maybe a MF ult would have gotten those too, while putting out even more DPS.

I think we will see him more, I just wish they didn't pick him for this specifice game. I honestly think they would have won the game if they just took kalista away when they had the chance. Or, picked a diff. ADC.