What Is The Point Of Jhin Right Now? (Patch 9.14)
I get it Jhin is a low mobility (except crits), high damage, high risk, high reward champion that scales really hard late game. But the problem is that is about half or more of the ADC's in this game and they are at less risk. For example Ezreal
, a very safe champion. So what is the offset of Ezreal for his safety. Its mainly misplaying ,missing abilities, and not the best DPS. The thing about his DPS isnt very big for him tho because he has a lot of burst and he still has a decent amount of DPS still. What missing his abilities and misplaying to be punished has really turned into is Yasuo syndrome where you miss an ability and are usually punished for it harshly but the problem with both champions is they have ways to escape and can spam the ability offsetting the miss a lot by itself. Don't get me wrong they still get punished but the main point is Ezreal can still do high damage like Jhin and has far more safety. Ok what about Tristana
. She has a similar case where she is safe to play and is punished for using her abilities wrong but this time instead of having low DPS she instead gets punished for engaging wrong and using her reset wrong. Now here is where this gets touchy. She is punished just fine for rushing in because she can be focused and shutdown but when she gets a kill she basically gets a free escape if they can't follow her which a lot of champions cant do. Morale of the story is she is safer than Jhin and can still do a lot of damage as well. One more champion and i'll wrap it all up. Caitlyn
is a different case then the rest. She isn't that mobile as well but she has enhanced auto range, a cc ability that gives her some kite, and traps that again give her cc and enhance her damage. She basically trades out mobility for damage like Jhin does except she does a lot herself and has better DPS because she attacks fast, does a ton of damage, and doesn't need to reload. Now Jhin has three main things that he has to trade for to do big damage. He has low mobility, has to reload, he basically has no hard cc, and he is incredibly squishy. Kiting is also sort of a thing Jhin doesn't have too much of because he relies on autos so much which most of the time is in range for other champions to burst him. Caitlyn has more reliable kite, she has two far more reliable hard cc moves than Jhin, she doesn't have to reload, and she isn't as squishy (although still squishy) in fact that only thing she really has less of is mobility which she has more range for anyways and I guess she has less burst damage but she has better DPS because she doesn't have to reload. The point is that why play Jhin when there are safer options that can do similar damage. Unless you go triple IE
I guess which is still a dumb excuse because why should Jhin be forced to go three of the same item to even do damage which btw the effect doesn't stack which means he is missing the effects of two other items that he could have. So basically why should Jhin pop like a balloon when everyone else at least can avoid it better and still do a similar amount of damage.