What’s up guys it’s me Jeremy.
I personally think Jhin is one of the most artistically impressive champions in league.
The amount of creativity and nuance that has gone into League’s most recent champion
is honestly fantastic, and I thought it’d be fun to take a look at random interesting
things from an individual champion, and what better place to start other than with Jhin.
As well just a heads up, when this video goes live I’ll be giving away 250$ worth of RP
and some other goodies with some friends, and it’s super easy to enter, just check
the link in the description.
Anyways, let’s get started.
First off, in development Jhin was originally designed by Jordan Anton, the designer for
Braum and Kindred, and Jhin was set up to be quite the different champion to how he
is now on release.
His skin, high noon jhin, was the original design idea for him as a champion, and he
was going to be a cowboy robot sniper kind of guy named deadeye.
His kit was also quite different during development.
His passive was going to deal a ton more damage, and they had cases where it was able to completely
one shot a zed with full health, so it had to be reworked.
As well, his Q would have been able to be casted again after hitting an enemy champion
from that champions location, however that idea was deemed to be too complicated to use.
And his W also used to reveal the marked champions for a few seconds, even in the fog of war.
Another iteration of his W resembled a javelin toss like nidalee’s, but with a much larger
range.
And a lot of the rest of his original concepts actually ended up going into Kindred, for
example the bounty hunter passive that Kindred has, originally was going to be in Jhin’s
kit.
However, eventually the designed was changed to August Browning, aka gypsylord, who also
designed champions such as Vi, Jinx, and Gnar, and his kit was changed completely into what
it is now.
Next up, Jhin was voiced by Quinton Flynn, who also voiced Prince Kael’thas Sunstrider
in World of Warcraft, Kon in Bleach, as well as assorted characters in the original Call
of Duty, Teen Titans, and Avatar the Last Airbender.
This guy is great, and the voice acting really helps bring Jhin’s character to life!
And speaking of voices, Jhin has the highest amount of voice lines in the game of any champion,
at 241, due to a crazy amount of hidden taunts and interactions.
The previous owner of that title of having the most voice lines in the game was Tahm
Kench, who had 224 vocal lines.
Jhin’s hidden taunt towards tahm kench is a reference towards this league of legends
record.
And at number 4, if you take a look, jhin is incredibly obsessed with the number 4.
His passive and ultimate use 4 shots, his Q bounces 4 times, his e and w effect units
for 4 seconds, but there’s also a lot more to it.
During his taunt, his gun shoots 4 projectiles, his gun has 4 tally marks on it, in the lore
he does 4 kills in each nation each time he gets a contract.
And as well, most modern songs are written with a 4 by 4 time signature, meaning each
part is separated into 4 beats, and as jhin counts every auto attack, it is like he is
conducting the game almost.
Among Jhin’s 241 voice lines, there’s quite a few obvious referneces to popular
culture, starting with this line that was taken from one of my personal favorite movies,
Django Unchained.
As well as one of his attack quotes, which comes from phantom of the opera.
Jhin’s dance animation comes from the Caucasian dance called the Lezginka, which is a national
dance of a lot of the people in the Caucasus reigon, however videos of the dance typically
won’t match up perfectly to Jhin’s dance, because every nationality in the reigon has
their own take and version of the dance, although judging by the name it most likely originated
from the Lezgians.
And apologies if I’m not pronouncing that correctly to anyone who is from that area.
Jhin also has a few interesting character traits.
His eyes are actually blue, unlike how his splash art depicts his eyes as being brown,
and you can see this during his laughing animation when he takes off his mask for a quick moment.
As well, Jhin crafts all of his bullets himself, fueled by magic.
His full name also means golden excellence in Ionian!
And my personal favorite is that Jhin’s favorite food is dumplings!
Although there’s no idea as to why that is.
And last up we have some stuff pertaining to his gameplay.
First off, you can teleport to Jhin traps, so you might be able to use that to help your
top laner come in for that dragon fight.
As well, his ultimate applies spell vamp, making it one of the only abilities in the
game that can proc spell vamp on a critical hit.
As well, Jhin’s W is not considered a projectile, so it will not be blocked by things like wind
wall, allowing you to still get damage or the root off on them.
In addition, Jhin’s Q resets his auto attack timer, so if you auto before, cast your Q,
you can auto again instantly for a quick and easy combo of damage.
As well one thing I thought was interesting, is that Jhin has some of the highest combined
hybrid scaling in the entire game of any champion.
His traps have a 120% AD ratio and a 100% AP ratio, and if you get his q to bounce 4
times, on the fourth bounce it has a 123& ad ratio and a 148% ap ratio.
It’s kind of crazy to think that hybrid jhin isn’t actually that good, but who know
maybe with some item or mastery it could be strong one day.
As well, it’s good to keep in mind that Jhin’s ultimate reveals all champions in
a huge area who have the w passive applied to them, so if your ally hits a target, you
can ult in their direction and it will reveal them, which you could use to land shots, or
just help out your team that way, maybe if it’s like a talon who can stealth or something
like that.
And lastly, always keep in mind that the ultimate has a range that is actually further than
the indicator shows, so you can shoot a bit outside of the range indicator cone thingy
if you need to.
And at the end of the day, can we all take a moment to just appreciate how incredible
Jhin’s design truly is.
I mean he has so much flavor and personality in all of his voice lines, and when you cast
your ultimate his theme starts playing with the violin and you can hear a chorus after
every shot.
And there are so many little minor details that really come together with the animations
and voice to create this incredible character that is unlike any other, and in my opinion,
is one of Riot’s best work ever in terms of aesthetic, personality, and design.
He might not be the strongest or best champion in the game right now, but there’s no doubt
that Jhin is so much more than just another ad carry.
And that’s just about it.
Here are some of my favorite comments from a previous video where I asked what your favorite
change in patch 6.4 was.
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Jhin is.
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