Unpopular Opinion: I don't think Jhin needed buffs

RainbowIcee··2 votes·348 views

I think as a few people have said and pointed out the type of champion jhin is doesn't work for a meta that has too much shields and heals. And again as a couple have pointed out shield/heals are the issue to many under-performing champions. Seems like champions with constant damage or instant burst are the only ones capable of being viable damage dealers.

Yesterday i had a match I was playing Volibear and i played the peel for my carry and got blasted by XinZhao and Swain with a Jhin in the back. Okay we got rekt. Second round same thing, xin when in on the ADC i peeled i got blasted and we got rekt'd. So third round i go fight jhin and turns out taking damage directly from him and he was hurting like a bitch, i died because of his summoner 21 but we won that fight because he was wounded and got killed. Next fights i just went full berserk ham on him with Volibear his team didn't peel for him. He ended up dying we won the team fights the second i went aggressive on jhin. What the hell is my point? no team had enchanters, and all of the sudden jhin was able to carry his game but had no peels. My ADC was Tristana so she peeled herself. This means from my experience that

  1. Jhin can still carry a game when he's not countered ( staple for any game shouldn't just warm the milk for ADC's )

  2. What's up with all other champs that are countered by this toxic shield/heal/tank/CC meta? will they get warm milk too ? probably not too many things too fix to make them viable in the current stage

  3. Why not just balance the thing stopping many champions from being able to perform better and bring down those that are doing too good? (shield abusers and item abuse ) This way we don't end up with too many champions overperforming because of buffs

9 Comments

Darkin Hybrid2 votes

Jhin "Art requires a certain cruelty."

Pandemic Punch2 votes

I banned Jhin all pre-season so my teammates couldn't pick him. He needs the buffs badly. Jhin struggles to take the enemy tank down to half health by the time Jinx or Twitch has already killed his entire team.

RainbowIcee1 votes

and yet he takes squishies down faster than jinx or twitch. Now he will be at a point where he will blast off anyone that's not a tank and it can create a point were people won't even be able to play him because of his ban rate.

Somebody Love Me1 votes

Jhin doesn't need buffs. Tanks and hypercarries need nerfs. Only reason Jhin is weak is because he can't hurt tanks that well seeing as he's centered around burst. He's a champ that waits for the meta to come to him, not the other way around

Digity1 votes

jhin is massively outclassed by trist and other hyper carrying adc's he needed some love also the W root working after any jhin spell is more of a QoL change that had to be there since his release.

SEKAI2 votes

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jhin is massively outclassed by trist and other hyper carrying adc's he needed some love also the W root working after any jhin spell is more of a QoL change that had to be there since his release.

Maybe it's the others who need nerfs. Because they do.

The QoL change on W? Okay. The rest feels unneeded given the problem is other adcs being too good rather than Jhin being too bad.

Ahristocats1 votes

even if you nerf trist

jhin absolutly deals no damage it's not even funny you will get roflstomped by enemy mid/top/jungle

Digity1 votes

also the meta is not that much about shields lulu janna are getting outclassed by braum alistar tahm etcare the meta picks. also the more cancerous thing is Warmog's Armor u get it as second item as a jungler and you don't even have to back u can just chaingank top - mid till the enemies ff. Sej needs a hit on her passive and her slowing from w it's getting a bit annoying every game it will be skarner j4 sej.

Sohleks1 votes

I think it is possible nerfing crit itemization may swing him into a better place. It's possible meta changes + large Jhin buffs would entirely reverse the situation.

Duskblade is receiving a large nerf too though so Jhin probably could use a tone up.

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