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Art Requires a Certain Cruelty - In Depth Jhin Guide

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Thanks for this! Won a lot of times using this runes. :D

So which runes are better the guide is showing different from the set on top

Won't you update the guide? ;-; This is the best guide of Jhin in mobafire, bur has been without updates for a while now :/

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Because of the 9.3 update, shouldn't Jhin not start with stormrazor since it is most powerful after other zeal items? Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like Rapid Firecannon would be a much better pick. Just my opinion though.

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Uh 9.3 isn't even out yet, it's hard to gauge the strength of items.

I do know that it's unlikely RFC as a first item will be good. I think it'll be IE/ER or maybe even back to lethality. Storm will no longer be a rush item for sure, but it'll be a late game choice if you choose .

My guess is IE > RFC > ER > Shiv > Storm as the "dont need defence and want maximum damage" build. The last 2 items being situational. Shiv for 100% crit, Storm if you go shiv, BT if you need lifesteal, GA if you need the defence, LDR/MR if u need the pen and PD if you need both crit and defence.

Until I get my hands on the items in ranked games, I can't suggest the best items no one can.

As of right now is DH or HoB better? Im getting mixed results.

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Dark Harvest in every situation that you would be using HoB in.

The problem with HoB is a few patches ago they made it so it didn't trigger on the first attack (which it before) making it so you pretty much only get 2 empowered shots instead of 3. Then they changed it again to make it so your 2nd/3rd and 4th shots get empowered.

Issue is you would literally need to fire all 4 shots without interruption for that to be good.

Dark Harvest on the other hand is way more consistent as it can proc off of abilities and can be done 100% of the time when someone gets below 50% making it just more reliable.

Jhin also prefers a damage keystone over a safe one (hence why Fleet isn't the spice right now)

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Ok so i'm sure someone else has commented or asked this and honestly I'm just too lazy to go looking through, so i'm sorry to make you repeat the answer to this question.
Why got the whole route of fleet footwork over hail of blades. I know this is a common meta for jhin currently so I was really curious as to the thought put into that.

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Hail of blades got nerfed/"fixed" to the point of it being the worst choice in most situations.

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Oh wow I didn't know that bit of information. Thank you. With that in mind i shall return to this style rune page then. THank you

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Great build and item kits. I found your guide very detailed and will help me clean up a few small mistakes I've been making with Laning decisions based on his abilities. The one thing I have trouble with is he is slow in the early game and I keep being paired with Rambo supports. I find I face Lucian, MF or varus. I can usually stay alive but I can't seem to finish off the kills and my support either doesn't help or attacks in poor situations. Any suggestions on early game play to finish off kills? Primarily before I hit level 6.

Should I switch to fleet after the hail of blades nerf? I'm seeing a lot of pro players making the switch/ Thought?

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Uh the patch hasn't hit yet so I'm unsure of the actual gravity of the nerf as it was a bug fix.

I *think* fleet will become better, but it will take a good week of testing to figure out if the bug fix will affect him enough to swap back to precision.

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Wouldn't it be nice that jhins passive could have an immediate reload from killing an enemy champ or something like that?

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Would be a huge buff that he doesn't really need.

The only buffs I would consider is lowering his crit penality on .

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Is good on Jhin anymore? I feel like it would be a good idea if you know you're going to have a rough game and need the healing...
Love your guide btw, the attention to detail is beyond what I expected!

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Since the ranged nerf to against minion, there is basically no point in picking it up over the domination tree.

and both pull similar healing numbers to fleet in the mid-late game and heal for a lot more in the early game. Then, will scale your damage much higher whilst also making you a lot more mobile.

If HoB got a nerf, or the passive AS ratio of got changed then maybe fleet will come back, but at the moment your only real option is

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Oh, that makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks a lot!

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Very nice guide! I really enjoyed reading it.
Was very helpful in learning to understand the champion better.
Gave me a lot of insight on how to play as and against Jhin!
Great work!

Hey man im a low elo adc main. Jhin is my favorite adc by far, but I have been doing two things which i know i should probably change, but id like to know why. First off, everyone says ruunans hurricane is horrible for him but they never say why. It gives mobility, and gives you 12 shots before a reload if you count the bolts. The bolts scale with ad and can crit. Its amazing for wave clearing and end game with red buff i have kited 3 champs solo with this item and healed from about 20% hp to full hp with a bloodthirster. So why does everyone hate it? I usually run it after the 3 core items to get me 100% crit and more aoe damage in team fights, my second question is about black cleaver. I didnt see any mention of black cleaver and i was wondering about yout thoughts on it. I like to replace my tier 2 boots with it end game for extra damage, armor shred, and the on hit movement speed with his passive is insane for kiting end game imo. Please explain why these are bad choices. Thank you

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Hurricane isn't total garbage, but the other 3 Zeal items are flat out better. If you want high stats/survivability, go Phantom Dancer. If you want Utility/All round power, RFC is the best. If you want Burst/AoE damage Shiv is the best. Hurricane fills both the PD and Shiv roles, but worse at both, and it's so much worse than both it doesn't make up for the fact it kind of does both. You'll also heal very quickly regardless of items, if you crit you'll get a solid 30-50% of your HP back. It's not 'awful' but I would never build it.

Black cleaver is bad because it's designed to be used to shred a targets armour through quick physical damage. Suck as multiple hits from a spell, high attack speed or a mix of both. Jhin has neither. He can't shred armour quickly at all, making LDR/Mortal better in every way except the HP/CDR. However, if you go the crit build (with ER) you don't need the CDR it gives. If you need a defence item, GA is better. If you need movement speed/damage, Zerks give a lot of AD and MS on Crit, plus they have the base MS from being a boot. If you need more damage, get a Zeal item or a 75 AD item.

They're both simply outclassed by the other choices has available to him, so much so that no matter what game/how you needed to build from his item pool there is always a better item than those 2.

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