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Does Jhin use mana?

DiamondLeonis··2 votes·1,056 views

Shall we just remove mana from the game since the only people who need to worry about it and get actively fucked over by mana costs are AP based champions and Riot doesn't give 2 shits about any of them. Since they clearly think that Yasuo is such an excellent design with his ability to spam everything.

I'm inclined to say that he doesn't because his skillshot costs are utter nothing. You always find this with ADC's, some of which have more powerful poke then most mages but their skillshots cost up to 50% LESS then a mage so they can happily spam from the early game, right the way through till endgame. It would be nice if ADC's had to worry about mana as well and forcing them to build some mana sustain might actually help balance them out from the rediculously broken state Riot has worked them into at the moment.

Rather then allowing them to build 6 straight glass canon items and NEVER change from that. Since AD items tend to be better then AP and give AD's pretty much everything they need in one go.

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Jaygo413 votes

essence reaver completely makes up for any mana deficiencies he could have even though the Youmuus is much more popular i still like to opt for essence reaver rapid fire cuz i like the range and spammable poke w/ ulti and W

DiamondLeonis1 votes

and both of these items give more stats then their AP equivalents do, plus the added benefit of never having to worry about mana again with free cooldown and free damage.

Fondling Gems2 votes

Only if you spam your abilities. It usually happens during the early game a couple times.

Marshbouy2 votes

Jhin has reduced auto attack speed (or at least locked auto attack speed) so it makes sense that his spells have low CD

DiamondLeonis1 votes

Oh... how terrible for him, considering each 4th Auto-Attack does free extra damage at no additional cost. I can see why he'd need to be able to spam with no real costs. After all Yasuo is the champion that Riot aspires to and he has 0 mana or worry about resources.

You know, he's really suffered considering he's top of the meta and most mages are sitting right at the bottom because assassins are just clearly better.

Marshbouy2 votes

at no additional cost except lowered over crit damage and FIXED ATTACK SPEED.

apples to oranges. you are comparing a mid lane AD fighter to an ADC

Guyy Fieri1 votes

Except some of the strongest Mids are Malzahar, Vladimir, Viktor, Taliyah...a whole bunch of control mages. Assasins aren't really the meta right now.

Astôlfo1 votes

You obviously haven't played Jhin much? Feel free to farm with his Q and lay out traps/constantly root people.

Guyy Fieri1 votes

Ima stop you right there. Jhin is actually fairly mana hungry depending on the play style. Not to mention in almost any extended team fight, a Jhin without Essence Reaver is going to run out of mana. Same thing with Lucian, same thing with Sivir. Now there are ADCs who can DPS without Essence Reaver or Tear. Those are the champs like Jinx, Vayne, Kalista, Tristana who all generally are auto attacking more than they are casting abilities. Many ADCs, tho, already have to build mana sustain to make it through long team fights and when they don't (like the Lucian and Jhin armor penetration builds) they are banking on never having that long of a fight so that they can use as few abilities as possible.

Slack King1 votes

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Shall we just remove mana from the game since the only people who need to worry about it and get actively fucked over by mana costs are AP based champions and Riot doesn't give 2 shits about any of them. Since they clearly think that Yasuo is such an excellent design with his ability to spam everything.

I'm inclined to say that he doesn't because his skillshot costs are utter nothing. You always find this with ADC's, some of which have more powerful poke then most mages but their skillshots cost up to 50% LESS then a mage so they can happily spam from the early game, right the way through till endgame. It would be nice if ADC's had to worry about mana as well and forcing them to build some mana sustain might actually help balance them out from the rediculously broken state Riot has worked them into at the moment.

Rather then allowing them to build 6 straight glass canon items and NEVER change from that. Since AD items tend to be better then AP and give AD's pretty much everything they need in one go.

Yea youre right, thats why Viktor is never played

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