Deadeye thoughts

firstly, can i get a confirm if anything here is correct, but no details? For one, Jhin is a new champion, as gypsy made him and did comment on reddit with an exclamation point

Firstly, its a iceboxed project, so the initial kit is most likely pre-juggernaut era, back when tanks were the major thing around, and vayne was the only viable champion to fight them.

The problem would have arisen after the realizations that tanks couldnt be stopped, so as the champion design team worked on jhin, live balance effectively killed the tank meta, rendering jhin's uses more limited.

Enter in preseason, ad carries are extremely mobile and have so many ways to deal with tanks, but long ranged bullies are left in the dust due to the insanity of the resolve tree.

So now jhin's got a new role to fill, massive lane bully, and should be able to reel in the current hypermobile carries like vayne and lucian with excessive poke.

Lets start with his name, jihn is a village in nepal, high in the mountains, which ionia contains many of. Its also close to what is roughly translated as flimsy from hindu, which is accurate for an adc, jhina.

What this could mean for his kit is that he's immobile(highly likely) Has no options bar running when engaged upon(caitlyn is explicitly stated as the zone control marksman, not the sniper) Has anti-tank scalings His teaser seems to stun zed in the same fashion as project yi's memories in overdrive, he was distracted by the petals which are common in all parts of ionia.

Plus, the japanese servers are being launched soon, so a champion would be needed for that.