A small tweak for Jhinn

Shaithias·6/1/2019, 3:57:22 AM·1 votes·1,482 views

So, Jhinn is a fairly strong champ against spellcasters and has a decent kit with his traps. However, there is a problem that he has. Many enemies that attack jhinn use leaps and teleports to gap close, and those moves are faster in many cases than jhinns w (his utility shot that snares an enemy if they have been damaged in previous 4 seconds or are on top of lotus trap)

This means that jhinn never actually forces the melee character to stop moving, despite being on the lotus trap, the enemy gets the kill in one hit (jhinn is a fragile character) and the enemy walks away with a free kill. I think that should change. If jhinn has the foresight to plant multiple lotus traps on a single spot, and then baits an enemy onto those traps, and THEN jhinn dies... well I think that the enemy should take the damage from the lotus traps, and if they are enough to get a kill, so be it.

Here is my proposal. Jhinn has a passive ability that causes a lotus trap to detonate under the corpses of newly killed champions. These lotus traps almost never come into play, and so this is a fluff passive. It needs to be trimmed. In its place, Jhinn should get a passive: Beauty in Death. With this new passive, when Jhinn dies he causes all lotus traps within 800 units of his body to detonate immediately with no cooldown.

The result should be fairly good for jhinn against such hyper carries as Master Yi and Yasuo, and assassins like talon. It would not affect Jhinn's play in team fights unless the teamfights were happening on top of lotus traps (and at that point, the slow is worse than the damage) This is actually a very slight nerf to Jhinn in teamfights in the jungle with lots of lotus traps around him. However it creates a situation with a strong counter to the hypercarries who mindlessly run about. Punishing a hypercarry like master Yi for simply running up to a jhinn and unloading on him without thinking if jhin fled to a certain position is a good thing. At the very least, the hypercarry will get a 1 for 1 trade instead of the free kills they get today.

1 Comments

Clockwork Mouse6/1/2019, 5:36:57 AM1 votes

The Jhin fantasy is to set up your enemy with a trap and your W. To get them on the 4th Q and then as they leave you ult them or someone trying to protect them.