Okay people lets clear some things up about this "Jhin's theme" issue
LONG POST INCOMING, TL;DR PROVIDED AT THE BOTTOM
So as a lot of you are probably aware of by now, there's quite a bit of back and forth about Jhin and on how his kit doesn't fit with this whole, "Virtuoso theme" he has going on, and that the previous champions released (save for
) all have great solid kits that work with their themes (subjective really). I've seen people say that Jhin could just be replaced with any old other kind of gunslinger archetype and that'd be able to replace him because he's all, 'bells, whistles, and pretty pictures' and granted there is a point to be made there but...that's all any champion really is, a bunch of particles and models meshed together into a coherent and (hopefully) pleasant design.
Take
for example, almost everything about her could be replaced with a plant monster motif, or even a necromancer (replace the tentacles with vines or fleshy/boney limbs and boom you're done...well except for her E, that one's really unique to her whole spiritual side so mad props to that ability). Even someone like Tahm Kench whom I adore, could be re-purposed into a grappler/luchador/strongman style champion all things considered. Hell given enough time I could replace every champion in League with something completely different yet retain the same abilities (That's not indicative of bad kit design, the same could be done for stuff like Dota, Smite, Awesomenauts, Dawngate etc). People who've created fanmade champions could most definitely attest that the visual and personal component of their champion can change drastically as they work on it yet still retain the same kit.
Funnily enough people seem to think his kit lacks the 'artistic flair' that his teasers gave us. But what people aren't thinking is that art is an incredibly subjective sort of deal and that it's highly unlikely that it would be possible to pass something off as artistic as those people thought with four abilities and some passive component to a video game character. Just because he doesn't lob globs of paint, summon statues out of the ground, or send out musical attacks doesn't mean he can't be a Virtuoso.
Speaking of which another thing people don't seem to be getting is that the whole, "Virtuoso" bit seems to be all in Jhin's own mind. Sure once the lore rolls out we'll (hopefully) get more details about his past but as of now he's a deranged maniac with a twisted view of death. When he kills people he doesn't see the gore or any of the other gritty details. He sees all those visual 'metaphors' we saw in the trailers.
So what we end up getting from Riot isn't some sort of 'artist' or 'virtuoso' as everyone likes to call him, we get a deranged madman who appears to be infatuated with killing people because he thinks he's making something beautiful while in reality he's just blowing holes in things. So people REALLY should stop seeing him and his kit as someone who's an artist, but see it as someone who's a proficient killer which, based off of having traps, explosives, easy access to crits, attack damage pumps, incredible range, pinpoint accuracy, and % missing health damage tells me he knows how to make a few corpses.
Now, at the time of making this his VO isn't released, but to me, Jhin is the kind of guy who will narrate everything that's going as if he's reciting Shakespear to an audience who doesn't exist, doling out compliments to the other champions as they try to kill him and insulting them if they fail to do so, but he could also be the more, quiet and calculating type who's attention to detail mean that each shot WILL find its proper place in his subject's body, or even a mix of the both, who knows? (Well we will in the near future). Maybe at some point in his life he was a magnificent artist/virtuoso but if that's the case then something either:
- Took a turn for the worse (like getting shamed or disgraced, oh those artsy types and angst).
- Some sort of accident caused him to go mad and hide his face.
- He was always a lunatic.
- Something else that will be in his lore and not here.
Well whatever happened to him, Jhin is clearly not right in the head and all those pretty flowers and trees we saw would in reality be blood, bones, organs, and other lovely giblets.
TL:DR Jhin isn't supposed to be a "Virtuoso" (as that appears to be a self given title), but a delusional madman who's good a shooting things, maybe he WAS an actual Virtuoso in his past but now he's just a proficient killer, and his kit reflects that so quit yer' belly aching.