

In my experience, very few enemies expect a strong jhin coming out of the top lane and will not expect your damage at the start of a team fight, assuming your team comp has other tanks and bruisers in it, the extra damage from having 2 adcs will put you at an advantage and leave the enemy team with confusion of which to focus first.ĭue to jhins lack of mobility without targets to crit, and forced dedication to pressuring lane, roaming mid is usually not an option. Once jhin has secured a lead in lane, a heavy lead in cs, and a few items into his core build, he can begin supporting team fights around the map. This will save you from many potential ganks as you can shut down the jungler before they even enter your lane (warning: junglers with stealth such as Evelynn and Shaco or jungler that can take unconventional routes into lane like Kayn will hard counter you, as jhin will rarely be able to survive an unexpected gank unless pushed into tower.

Place your traps along walls and on the end of the river, these will slow enemies passing through and allow you to use Deadly Flourish to root and escape. Protection - while usually seen as his worst ability, Jhin would be nothing without Captive Audience, this acts as gank protection and trade protection, all of jhins defensive capabilities rely on Captive Audience. Poke - about 50% of your auto attacks should go into the enemy laner as poke, the other 50% into getting cs, you want to use the low health of caster minions and the passive of Dancing Grenade to do extra usually unexpected damage, while still trying to avoid pushing lane too far. Jhin wants to take this early game and get as much of a lead on his laner as possible, if your gold is even with your laner it gives them the confidence and the strength to all in you, the goal during the first 6 levels is to "establish dominance" over your lane to survive until you get the items you need. Jhin is able to out poke most top laners and zone them away from the wave but has some major weaknesses alongside it Jhin top functions for one reason only: Poke This guide is a focus on Jhin top specifically, so I will not be going into what Jhins abilities are, how they work, etc. these factors make playing jhin a challenge, and that probably isn't gonna change any time soon.

Jhin has been a fairly weak ADC since they nerfed jhinsoos, he usually can't compare to other marksmen like Jinx and Lucian who have the burst and early game mobility jhin doesn't get until late game. Especially in low Elo, there are undoubtedly more troll supports than real ones, and going into the bot lane is especially as jhin is automatically putting a lot of trust in a stranger to help you through the upcoming 2v2, if you don't have a duo partner often, the number of supports that steal cs, do no damage, or can't peel, really puts you at a disadvantage compared to more meta carries.Ģ. Jhin is a very special and unique ADC, so much so that maybe he doesn't even belong in the bot lane!Īfter about a year of maining jhin I took to the top lane for a couple of reasons, if you identify with either of these often, you may want to learn to transition to top.ġ.
