Jhin, the Master piece of Riot game

Ahristocats··155 votes·9,864 views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGN6CAjSuCA The unique character The one that neither Hon or Dota2 will ever have The only good work of Gypsylord

Jhin drives me crazy. i can literally play jhin forever and will never get bored He's the only one that makes me feel a unique feeling that no other champion can make. His ingame gameplay is the gameplay of a sniper, always aiming from a long range, a range no one will expect. With W and R you literally play the game from 3000 range, but die when you get caught unless your team helps you. This is one of the reason jhin is an insanely well done character, HE MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE A SNIPER, when you play him you're not playing a sniper YOU'RE A SNIPER.

His kit isn't a kit of "i right click and bring only damage to my team" cough vayne, master yi Jhin is way way way deeper than that His kit introduces (or uses since graves was the first)the "cooldown on basic attacks" with a slow attack speed that cannot be improved, jhin has to think twice about wasting an autoattack on minions or ANY OTHER UNITS like zyra's plants, but as a result his autoattacks all have a great impact due to his passive bonus damage, and his fourth shot gives him even more decision, should he waste autoattacks on minions to get his 4th shot faster? or should he keep them because he won't have enough damage to kill a target? His Q makes a smart jhin able to attack a minion in a one vs one (again autoattacks are importants=more decisions) because killing a minion or two with his Q will improve the damage MASSIVELY in laning phase, this move makes you feel like you did something only 0.1% of jhin's players will do And his R, oh my god i play mobas since 2010 and i waited something like that since SO MUCH time, the ability to snipe people from A VERY HIGH RANGE, i'm not talking about Caitlyn ulti that is point and click, but about that jhin's ulti that has a delay and is skillshot based when you use your R you feel like the world is in your hand, you're sitting from far away with the screen that zooms out (OH MY FUCKING GOD THANK YOU FOR THIS) that just makes you feel you're above everyone and you have 4 executes that you can shoot.

While jhin is worse than any adc at killing durable targets, he trades this ability for massive utility with W long range snare, his traps (that are i think the least satisfying spell of jhin) and his ulti range+vision reveal This makes his gameplay way more interesting because when behind he can still be usefull instead of being invisible in the game like Vayne Draven

Then you have the other part of jhin, HIS THEMATIC, HIS BACKGROUND Combining Art+snipe+psychopath is so damn Jhinius, let's talk about something we all knew "jhin is disappointing because nothing in his kit fits to art" ** WRONG ** EVERYTHING FITS TO ART IN HIS KIT Art means either creation, but also a technic ("art of explosion"-deidara) with jhin, his ability of sniping is his art, aiming with his gun from 3000 range to successfully "touch your heart" is his art.

And lastly, holy shit, nothing feels better than playing a champion with a thousand of quotes that is the reason i love Rubick in dota2, his whole knowledge and imitation theme is so well used so many quotes ("There are none that cannot be mimicked" https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/d/dc/Rubick_spellsteal_14.mp3 "No sorcery lies beyond my grasp" https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/8/81/Rubick_move_21.mp3 "My thirst for knowledge cannot be quenched"https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/e/ed/Rubick_spawn_01.mp3) http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Jhin/Quotes Jhin has so much quotes, and they are ALL well done, all around Art and shows ("I provide catharsis for my clients, and my victims") they are the kind of quotes you would repeat even after finishing your game

Tl dr of this thread: Jhin's gameplay is the best gameplay of all marksmen, his kit isn't based on attacking and orb fucking walking Vayne Caitlyn of course there is some orb walking in his kit, but like you can see in this video the majority of his gameplay is sniping from a long range with skillshot spells and using his Q bounce/passive 4th shot to create plays orb walking is just a thing you can try to do sometimes with him HOLLY FUCKING SHIT RIOT WHY AREN'T EVERY MARKSMEN LIKE JHIN WTFFFFFFFFFFFF Jhin's background and theme are extremely well used, i wish riot used quotes as something to improve the satisfaction of playing a champion instead of something you throw randomly looking at Sona i love her voice i love the fact that her quotes are related to music but they are just too simple unlike jhin with his "catharsis" and they just feel out of place, like jhin says "i inspire action" when he has his 4th shot just at the right time.

Sincerly, your favorite Doctor http://news.cdn.leagueoflegends.com/public/images/pages/2016/january/jhin/img/Jhin_Passive.jpg

163 Comments

Best princess EU76 votes

"death should never be quick" proceds to oneshot mf

Nice one riot

Ahristocats10 votes

it should be an opera!

perhaps you mean caitlyn at 2:03?

Best princess EU4 votes

yes indeed i wonder if the silence afterward was done on purpose

Ahristocats6 votes

I did this to match "opera" with jhin's ulti

Big Lincoln15 votes

jhin belongs in the garbage bhin tbh

I refuse to believe that gypsylord was the main designer of this champion, he's too well done

Ahristocats6 votes

at first your sentence scarred me, but then

[{quoted}](name=Big Lincoln,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KEX0oaEE,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2017-01-30T19:11:10.510+0000)

I refuse to believe that gypsylord was the main designer of this champion, he's too well done

Exactly, Gypsylord brought so many **** he even said that Jhin's spells aren't that different from other champions but that passive, that passive made him using a next level imagination and even imagined on how to balance his passive and honestly even if his Q/W ressemble to other things they feel just unique to use on jhin for the reasons listed on the thread

perhaps he could have done better with jhin's E but it doesn't matter it's a master piece

Big Lincoln6 votes

i actually like jhins traps and the gameplay around those than his Q; if he was all about setting up huge traps and then sniping you off I would probably play him more

that BM skin is going to make me start though rip my wallet

Ahristocats4 votes

[{quoted}](name=Big Lincoln,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KEX0oaEE,comment-id=000300000000,timestamp=2017-01-30T19:22:35.179+0000)

that BM skin is going to make me start though rip my wallet

oh god... i totally forgot this

but i didn't say jhin's traps are useless, i said they don't bring that much satisfaction tbh someone triggered them and you press W then that's it, unless you're in the very late game traps will only do this

Big Lincoln4 votes

yeah I'm learning him entirely for that skin lmao. bad impulse buyer

i do agree, I wish he had more to do with his traps; being able to chain them or make actual set up plays with them would have been very nice. one day riot will make a good trap champion I hope

KetiaX4 votes

I don't want another techies, thank you.

Ahristocats4 votes

he was reworked 1 month ago new techies is objectively healthy, he can only put one mine in 400 AOE but the mine deals 700 damage to compensate, and the mine is triggered after 1.5 sec, and you can see the mine if you enter in 400 AOE and destroy it in one hit

ModCaptainMårvelous14 votes

I actually wrote a bit about this in an article but one of the worst feelings about the MOBA genre is that you don't have characters carry over. As an example, fighting games usually have a Ryu-style character. He won't play EXACTLY like Ryu but he plays closely enough that you can get a good feeling and have similar situations.

MOBAs? All you have are poor substitutes. If you like Blitzcrank, Pudge or Stitches won't scratch your itch. I love Skywrath but no League character has ever mimicked his gameplay. Leoric in HotS is fucking cool but good luck ever getting him into DOTA or League. This is the biggest crime of the game: You can never have your favorite character in any other game.

Which sucks ass.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku8 votes

You can never have your favorite character in any other game.

MonkeyKing

Maligaro Spike12 votes

The only good work of Gypsylord

looks like shifting from a 3 hit passive to a 4 hit one actually paid off

røckstãr8 votes

What about Twitch? He is unique too...

Ahristocats6 votes

Well, you take clinkz and you have an other version of twitch in an other game Jhin's design goes beyond league of legends, the cleverness of his design will not be found anywhere

røckstãr5 votes

rip

Nightcrow Teo5 votes

Urgot Unique

h5LYF41Lam8 votes

//gypsylord clicks the post to get praised //reads "the only good work of gypsylord" in the post. //cries in spanish

warpenguin5557 votes

Everything about Jhin is just glorious. One of if not the best designed champions from all aspects. His game play has almost perfect synergy with his lore and his VO. He has clear strengths and weaknesses. He's not overbearing in the slightest and he's fun to play. By all means this is what a champion in League of Legends should be. It's a shame we don't get these kinds of champions often.

Ungrateful Thug7 votes

That feel when you ult with Jhin and then the music comes on....literally makes you feel like you're a God about to rain death upon the enemy team.

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Photos of Ghosts7 votes

Same would be for Kindred if they weren't so weak tbh

GrReaper964 votes

Not to mention her kit doesnt feel thematic or unique, more like a second Kalista

Nightcrow Teo5 votes

Urgot But i am more unique

TyrekGoldenspear6 votes

This passion compels me.

He is literally the only marksmen I love playing becuase of his style, quotes, presentation, and that ult.

Ahristocats5 votes

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He is literally the only marksmen I love playing becuase of his style, quotes, presentation, and that ult.

exactly the tl dr i needed! everything i said oh well the longer it is the better it is :^)

Jhin is literally the only godlike job i find from riot, there are good stuff but jhin is a billion level ahead

TyrekGoldenspear7 votes

Whenever I play him I mute the ingame music and just play his login screen music on my computer.

Perfection.

Swarovsko6 votes

His voice (in italian it sounds even better), lore, kit, theme ecc are perfect. Everything about him is perfect. He is strong, fun, unique, partly innovative and overall balanced. His ultimate is what I like the most. He like starts this curtain and everyone starts dancing, that's just amazing. Speaking of Sona, she's just wasted with that corny kit. There are so many things Riot could do with Sona but as long as they keep reworking her around her aura she will always be a point and click braindead bitch.

Ahristocats4 votes

Honestly perfection doesn't exist in real life, yet jhin.....

Swarovsko4 votes

I actually exist

Onkel Malte6 votes

He's probably the best Champion made up until now. He is so satisfying to play and I could hear his music and voice all day long. Also he's a Artist and Killer and I love both so much!!! It reminds of the reasons why I love Hannibal so much.

He is absolute Perfection and I can just say.

I love Jhin <4!

Ahristocats4 votes

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He's probably the best Champion made up until now.

i just wished more champions were like him, thematic/background wise, and gameplay wise

Troll for Trump6 votes

You know who else is unique and doesn't really fall off?

Urgot

Zedex5 votes

Just waiting for the hate train to spawn when he becomes FoTm again. I think he's fine, fun, and unique. But knowing the boards? Overloaded super tanky assassin marksman.

Sahn Uzal5 votes

Honestly, I don't think Jhin feels overwhelming even when strong. That says something about a champion, but that says A LOT about a Marksman in my eyes.

KoKoboto5 votes

[{quoted}](name=Dr Sona x Rubick,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KEX0oaEE,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-01-30T18:34:13.207+0000)Sincerly, your favorite Doctor

No offense bud but my favourite Doctor slot has already been filled DrMundo

His Dinoboy5 votes

This is a valid opinion and i respect it but i feel as if you are completely wrong. I feel as if the best and most intuitive creation ever fathomed is not Jhin . There is no one in the entire league champion lineup as interactive, whimsical, and thrilling as Rammus . Every other champion is completely obliterated by the sheer amount of mechanical and intellectual requirement to even slightly use Rammus . It is idiotic how you could ever suggest Jhin when there is so much more to be said about Rammus . I could go on for hours on end about the ways you can play Rammus . For Example

the weeaboo4 votes

1.3k hours of Dota here, you're right.

I wish my boy Slark had an equivalent in League :.(

Ahristocats4 votes

Well do you imagine what it feels to be a Rubick main The only one that can steal spells

the weeaboo4 votes

rest in peez

ZILLAGULA4 votes

Agree with you on everything, very entertaining video with fitting music!

Ahristocats2 votes

OOOO!!! someone told me that this music was terrible for this video, thanks!

ZILLAGULA5 votes

No, not at all. The dramatic tone fits perfectly with Jhin.

I'd make this post myself if I had come up with it, I truly believe Jhin to be the best champion in the game both in terms of looks and lore and in terms of balance.

lolipopevelynn4 votes

League actually has a lot of unique champions thematic and personality wise. League started off straight copycatting Dota heroes and calling them champions instead( Ashe ) but they have fixed a lot of that through reworks and kit updates.

Ekko for example can honestly have his own comic book series that Hollywood would eventually call up riot and make a movie about him.

Ahristocats4 votes

why would you pick ekko over fizz? or fizz over ekko? i personally with so much time didn't manage to answer to this question, if you can then gz friend

P4stry4 votes

As an avid hater of Fizz and a decent player of Ekko, allow me to explain how they are VERY different...

Ekko Q: A mid ranged skill shot that deals extra damage on the return trip.

Fizz Q: A short ranged dash that deals damage.

Ekko W: Has a massive AOE stun that can only be utilized after an equally massive delay, making it a very hard to use effectively, but when it is used properly it can win an entire game (plus it gives a shield).

Fizz W: Passively applies bleed, actively is just another enhanced auto that about 100 other champions have.

Ekko E: A short dash that, after using, allows you to blink to an enemy and deals bonus damage.

Fizz E: One of the most troll abilities in the game, this gives fizz brief invulnerability and allow him to 'hop' twice, dealing damage or using it as an escape tool.

Ekko R: Words cannot describe the sexy play potential that this ult has. Can be used as an escape tool after a dive, juke out enemies that are chasing you, or occasionally a massive chunk of burst damage if positioned properly. Don't forget the heal as well.

Fizz R: Chucks a fish at a target, and the damage scales off how far the fish travels before landing, then deals a massive chunk of damage plus a knock.

Basically, the champs have almost nothing in common other than both are pretty mobile and are AP assassins. Ekko has by far more utility than Fizz as well as better diving potential. Fizz deals incredible single target damage and his E excels at tilting people all the way to Antartica. Their abilities are pretty much entirely different and thematically, Fizz is a tilting frog and Ekko is a friggin time traveller that built said time machine outa junk and a crystal he randomly found.... how do you see a similarity in that?

And to answer your question of why Ekko over Fizz. More play making potential and team fight utility. Fizz over Ekko? More reliable damage (Ekko relies on a 3 hit passive for most of his damage) and make-the-enemy-tilt potential as well as a better early game.

P.S. I have to completely agree with you about Jhin though, probably one of the best designed champions in the game (I suck at him though) but that doesn't mean there aren't other equally unique and good designs

Ahristocats4 votes

that is a fucking well written post, thank you for this ekko is indeed more utility oriented

Hyelin2 votes

Why is everyone hating on Gypsylord? Isn't he the guy that made Jinx/Vi/Ekko? I personally love to play those three champs.

DrugsForRobots2 votes

It just makes me sad that by making him a 'psychopath' and 'murder' with a smiling mask he has cannibalized Shaco's theme and flavor space. Sure, he does it for different reasons ("art") but what is Shaco's story now? What can Shaco's thematic be? He was League's original 'homicidal lunatic' who killed for giggles (thus his smiling mask) but Jhin is like Shaco 2.0 in the lore / theme department, only more "serious" which is undercut by him a smiling mask, rather than a frowning or grim one.

*sigh

Ironic that the artist is a cheap imitation.

http://orig11.deviantart.net/240a/f/2016/290/d/0/jhin_and_shaco_by_drugsforrobots-dalcf5s.png

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