I just got Jhin, time to try him out!

Laughing Fish··59 votes·3,410 views

finds a game Oh well, he got banned. Next time! 5 games later Still banned... Ok, time for blind pick... Oh look, someone locked him in first. Next time... 5 games later I did it! I locked him in first! ally dodges because they wanted Jhin https://media.giphy.com/media/uKT0MWezNGewE/giphy.gif

R.I.P team builder item 3070

31 Comments

Kei14312 votes

wait till hes at free week.

then whats going to happen?

Ralanr8 votes

You could try a custom.

kile14717 votes

That's what my friend did. We just did 1V1 on SR. I solved his Jhin problem too, I picked Fiora and made him give up on playing Jhin for awhile.

Rendarkan2 votes

Teemo works well too though Teemo works well against alot of others.

NichtHurz2 votes

Just pick Teemo jungle and wreck havoc upon the at least 3 adc type champs on the enemy team :3

Rendarkan2 votes

Teemo is actually a really good bait piece. It's a hidden buff.

Upon entering the Rift all enemy champions target Teemo regardless of the other allies on your team no matter what health % they are missing.

This is further increased by spamming your laugh taunt at them repeatedly. Expect to get reported and verbally abused in all chat. Expect an enemy to rage about stepping on your little doomsday device rendering them near death and crawling away.

Laughing Fish6 votes

I eventually made a team of friends in draft pick who agreed not to ban him, and got him after a couple of tries.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Also did a 5-man pre-made. Every game that we were first pick: they banned him. Every game that they were first pick: they picked him.

That would suggest to me that Jhin is OP as F. Except we trashed him every time. (>_>)

Auz the Ripper1 votes

Jhin isn't OP He's way too vulnerable to dives

He is however extremely fun

Gubaguy1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Auz the Ripper,realm=NA,application-id=Ir7ZrJjF,discussion-id=EMb2QEXH,comment-id=0001000100000000,timestamp=2016-02-03T00:49:27.914+0000) He's way too vulnerable to dives

Um... Auto them, W them, walk away and laugh. How is he EVER in danger of being dove?

Auz the Ripper1 votes

Most assassins can kill him in that delay and diving champions in general are usually mobile enough to dodge his W. Plus Deadly flourish has a CD of 14 at all levels, the lowest it can is 8.4 seconds with 40% CDR, so using it offensively leaves him wide open

I mean he isn't Kog'Maw level of dive-able, but he's close

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

The last line may help understand the post better.

IcyPepper1 votes

That would suggest to me that Jhin is OP as F.

Or everyone wants to play him or doesn't want to play him because he's new?

Then again, he could be OP, but this behavior is normal. Even Bard got banned a few times on release week.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Bard (and most new champions) either got banned or didn't. Especially in pre-5, you're not worried about an ally picking (and sucking with) the new champ, so it's a wasted ban. Jhin so far has literally been pick/ban status for the other team. This would suggest they really want to pick him, but don't want to risk going against him. A common sign of OP and FotM champs.

Despite the pick/ban trend though, we trashed every. Single. Jhin. So either he is OP and the ones we played against sucked, or the people we play against are just trolling to prevent others from playing him.

IcyPepper1 votes

If you're trashing him every game, then does his pick/ban status make him OP?

The guy just got released, and there's many threads about people just banning him just because it's the first week, and people just wanting to pick him to try him out (like this thread). If you're trashing him, then you don't even have anecdotal reference for it :/

From what I remember, ban rate is more about perceived power (Darius's ban rate did not lower for awhile after some, er, very reasonable nerfs that toned down his power quite a bit. People do not forgive and forget that easily) which is likely to affect a champion on their first week. Considering how Jihn scales uniquely with his AD, people might call him OP right out of the gate. As for pick rate, people want to play the champion that just got released. It happened with Ekko, Tentacle Princess, and a few others.

Honestly, I think it'd be better to at least wait a week or two to see how people adapt with and against him. This playerbase can be finicky sometimes (I know I am). If he is truly OP, we'll see a similar pattern to the Graves rework. Bursty ADC's can be a sore spot in the balance discussion department, so while I'm not going to say he isn't OP, I'm just not quite sure if I can trust anyone saying he is.

Although if he truly is OP and you're still trashing him, nice. Kick him down before he gets nerfed for bragging rights.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

If you're trashing him every game, then does his pick/ban status make him OP?

No. But from my experience, the "we get him or nobody does" mentality is unusual for new champs in pre-5 unless they are over-tuned. Yolo Queue is a different monster entirely.

Stars Shaper4 votes

The most funny game I dodged went like this:

  • I finally get to queued as Botlane
  • I am first pick, blue team (Wohoo!! finally some Jhin action)
  • Jungler Diana bans Jhin
  • I ask him why and he replies: "Because is OP"
  • ...
Dank N Plank3 votes

You know who else has been doing this?

...MY MOM!

BlackestEyes3 votes

Pro tip for you.

Go into custom, create a normal game and start it without bots or anything.

Don't actually play the game, all you want is the champion selection which still works under the Blind Pick system.

Find Jhin in the game, and memorize the exact location of his portrait. Put your finger on the screen if you have to. Quit the custom before it starts, and start a Blind Pick normal game.

After you accept the game, put your mouse where your finger was, or wherever you know Jhin is he will still be in the EXACT same place, as the screen saves where you were last looking and just CLICK LIKE THE DICKENS. When the game starts up, you instant get Jhin and call whatever role you want. GG.

TeCoolMage1 votes

And you then get Jhin support. The end.

Tyaldan1 votes

Im actually thinking of doing a duo bot with jhin support, his traps are great, his w is the perfect snare, its just a little hard to hit without them being slowed. The solution? Adc ashe. It could be fun as hell and op too. ashe stuns for jhins ult who then if they arent dead follows up with a w snare.

TeCoolMage1 votes

Trust me, it'd be much much better if Ashe was support and Jhin was ADC due to how Jhin's ult is more reliant on items than Ashe.

Ashe would rush black cleaver and go for a bruiser build while Jhin builds full damage.

Serika Zero2 votes

Yes, where's team builder, because all the 400.000 players that want to play Jhin will now queue with each other??????? Jhin top, Jhin mid, Jhin adc, Jhin jungle, Jhin support I've seen all of that in the new draft mode. And guess what, if you wanted Jhin, in the team builder, you would've have to wait for hours to get him. Like 2+ hours. Most people in team builder would've either queue for Jhin or play the new modes.

Then you would complain that it takes 3 hours to find a game, and then your team was full of trolls. So, whatever riot would have done, you guys would've still complained.

Play with 4 friends, and bam, you got Jhin. If you lack friends, go play custom games if you want Jhin so much. That's what I did with her Kindred and it worked nicely

COWmanLord2 votes
Laughing Fish1 votes
Yumifries1 votes

Same problem here haha And it feels like people are literally trying to play him every role bar support. So not only do I have to fight against enemy team locking Jhin, but 3 other people wanting to play him Bot/Mid/Top

LOL Spammer1 votes

And then let the upvotes pour in... http://i.imgur.com/jALQ4zg.gif

BRBGTGBOWFLEX1 votes

Team builder sucked.

It's been really easy to get him in blind pick. In team builder I would have had to wait 20+ minutes to get a game. And people would still kick you for picking whoever was released. I remember trying to team-builder on champ releases, it was awful.

http://imgur.com/3angM5C

1 time out of 6. And I played about 14ish games today and I think around 12-11 I got Jhin.

If I was doing teambuilder I might have gotten 3 or 4 games all day. I probably wouldn't have the patience to deal with it. And the games from teambuilder were so low quality. Glad it's gone

Drackolus1 votes

Meanwhile, a new support comes out, and I get to play them eight games in a row without competition.

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