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Runes: PRECISION + DOMINATION

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Presence of Mind

Legend: Bloodline

Cut Down

Inspiration

Magical Footwear

Biscuit Delivery

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2 3

FLASH + HEAL

Flash

Heal

Items

START #1

START #2

START #3

DO NOT FORGET

CORES

FINAL BUILD

SITUATIONALS

Ability Order R>Q>W>E

Jhin Passive Ability

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	1. Introduction Some informations about me and guide. 2. Pros and Cons Intormations about advantages and disadvantages of Jhin. 3. Runes More about runes. 4. Summoners Quick about summoner spells. 5. Abilities Briefly about skill sequence.	6. Items Build order, cores, situationals, example full build. 7. Champions More about counters, match-ups and synergies. 8. Tips and Tricks Tricky stuff. 9. Other Guides Mine other guides.

Hello everyone, I'm HG White

from EUNE. I'm playing league since 2012 but I still learn about this game. I'll give you some tips/advices about Jhin. Maybe he is really hard to master, but after seeing this guide you should know what you're doing. Please give me your feedback to improve my guides :D.

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Pros

+ Very long-range poke
+ Always crit with 4th attack
+ Good scaling
+ With criticals really good kiting
+ High damage

has got single target burst damage. Remember that crits give you movement speed. When you are reloding you can't attack so use spells (generally ) to farm while doing this.

Cons

- Low early mobility
- Can't do anything with basics when reloading
- Easy to catch with gap closers
- Skillshots
- Paper

is hard to master champion. You can't last hit with basics while you are reloading so you have to spent mana. Jhin doesn't have any mobility except his basic attacks (critical strike). He is susceptible to gap closers.

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Fleet Footwork

Bonuses:

5.4 Attack Damage (adaptive) - some amount of damage that helps killing creeps in early, fighting and scaling your abilities (every ability scale with AD)
5.4 Attack Damage (adaptive) - same as above
6 Armor - in my opinion armor in this meta is the best choice on bot lane (lot of ad junglers and also agressive bot laners). (15-90) Health (by lvl) or 8 Magic Resist can be taken in some situations. Health against mixed damage carries like Ezreal and magic resist against lot of magic damage (especially adc and support like Kai'Sa, Brand etc.

Runes:
vs vs vs - Fleet is more suitable cause works well with and gives sustain. Other runes are just ok or bad. isn't that good cause of low attack speed. is just bad because jhin does not have profit of attack speed cap remove. gives a bit "burst" and it could be good but not that much because jhins attack speed is very low.

is acctually best rune for jhin due to his mana problems. +500 maximum mana after 5 takedowns and also mana in teamfights after that helps a lot. Also with that you don't have to rush essence reaver.
can give you high advantage in duels especially against or damage over time spells, also it gives bonus gold for takedowns - good rune.
But it's bit better after changes because it works well with , , , , supports with and supports with heal like , etc.

Legends:
is not recommended on adc. doesn't work good as (especially after changes 10 -> 20 stacks BUT 8 -> 12% life steal) on Jhin (for me of course) because this champ doesn't got additional attack speed. Attack speed cannot be improved and it transforms into attack damage - (0,25 % AD per 1% attack speed so - 4,5% at 18% of alacrity). So you'll tell: Hey White it's 4,5% bonus AD! It's insane value. In my opinion 4,5% damage < 12% lifesteal.

Quick math for some amounts:

100AD + 4,5% AD + 0% lifesteal = 104,5 AD and 0 healing from each attack
100AD + 0% AD + 12% lifesteal = 100 AD and 12 health from each attack
300AD + 4,5% AD + 0% lifesteal = 313,5 AD and 0 healing from each attack
300AD + 0% AD + 12% lifesteal = 300 AD and 36 healing from each attack

As you can see amount of healing is bit bigger than amount of attack damage. League is not only about dealing damage it's also about surviving damage.

[7%], [4-10%] and [5-11%] - what should you choose? I think it depends on team compositions. If your opponents have got 2 tanks and off tank or 3+ tanks you should choose . If your team has got incredibly shielding and enemies has got mostly off tanks you should take cause they can't execute you and Jhin is going to deal high damage at low or even medium health. Other options should be because it's good rune almost always.

Second runes:
nimbys cloak

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FLASH

For better positioning in teamfights, for escaping, for doing some tricks or just dodge something. Just most useful spell and in my opinion should be taken always.

HEAL

Heal is primary spell for every ADC, but in meta of everything on bot it isn't the only spell that can be taken. gives you high early potential to win early game. It heals you and your botmate. I think if you don't want to think too much you can take it always. But in some situations it's better to take or .

BARRIER

You can take barrier if your support already has taken . It's also good if you know that enemies gonna take a lot of grievous wounds - s, build , , , etc.

CLEANSE

You can take cleanse if enemies has got early hard cc (like , etc.) or that much cc that isn't enough. If you've taken that ask support if he can take (not necessary if support has healing like , etc.).

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R>Q>W>E

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

> > >

We want to max out , because it's our main damage dealer. Also it hasn't got long cooldown so it help with last hitting while reloading. Then , because it allows you to make higher damage from range and longer root duration. We level up last because we don't need this that much early cause it's easy to dodge.

Early game try to poke enemies with but don't comne to them and use that Q. Try to make minions health low and then use Q on one of them - damage increase for each kill (up to 105% bonus damage). It can deal insane damage as 's , example:

Don't waste to deal a bit amount of damage (unless you've got or someone stepped on your trap) - it has 14 sec cooldown. If your jungler is going to gank, hold it and use just in time to root for about 1 sec (early).
- level up this at 5 or even later (sometimes I level up this at 13). You should use it as a wards, traps and sometimes in fight. Wards:

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*still getting database

Match-ups	Synergies
Ashe, Caitlyn, Corki, Draven	SUPPORTS WILL BE HERE