After increasingly more teasers and leaks regarding League of Legends (LoL) have come to light recently, RiotGames has finally revealed the new champion.
Let’s start with Jhin’s abilities in LoL:
Passive: Whisper
Similar to Graves, Jhin has a specific amount of ammunition he can fire before he must reload. However, his magazine is twice as large and holds 4 bullets. The last shot from your magazine is a guaranteed critical hit that deals damage equal to the target’s missing health. However, his critical hits do not deal as much damage as those of other champions, and his attack speed does not scale with items; instead, he gains attack damage from those items.
Q: Dancing Grenade
Similar to Katarina’s Q ability, Jhin throws an item at a nearby enemy. This item, which is a grenade in this case, can bounce up to 4 times off of other enemies. If this grenade kills an enemy, the subsequent hits deal bonus damage.
W: Deadly Fanfare
Passive: If an enemy champion is hit by a normal attack from Jhin, by Captive Audience, or by allies, they will be marked for a few seconds.
Active: Jhin fires a strong shot with high range in a specific direction, similar to Lucian’s Q ability. All hit minions and the first champion struck will take damage. If the hit champion is already marked by the passive ability, they will be briefly incapacitated, and Jhin, the Virtuoso of LoL, will gain increased movement speed for a short duration.
E: Captive Audience
Jhin places a trap on the ground, similar to Caitlyn, which becomes invisible once he sharpens it. If a champion steps into this trap, they will be marked and revealed by the passive effect of Deadly Fanfare. Additionally, the trap will cause an AOE slow when triggered. And because that’s not enough, the trap explodes a short time after being triggered, dealing damage to all enemies in the explosion area.
R: Curtain Call
For his grand finale in LoL, Jhin fully assembles his weapon and aims in a direction. Upon activating this ultimate ability, all marked targets within a large area in that direction are revealed. He can then fire up to 4 shots that embed in the first enemy hit, slowing them and dealing damage based on lost health. The last of these 4 shots deals massively increased damage and is guaranteed to be critical!
Here you can see the abilities summarized in a video:
Which lane Jhin is best played on remains open. He seems to fit well in the mid lane or as a marksman on the bot lane. His abilities at least remind of an ADC version of Xerath.
