Talk:Jhin/@comment-26815373-20160113111030

I think gypsylord has finally made a bad champion and, IMO, this the poorest champion Riot has put out in a long time.

I think his appearance and their design choices are bizarre. He's 'The Virtuoso' which is pretty vague to start with, and he appears to be a normal human wearing a drama mask, a white poncho, some brass leggings with a gauntlet to match, weilding an enchanted mystical gun... that can become a larger gun... that shoots flowers? Oh, and butterflies.

Thematically, he's related to the stage - he's made out to be an actor, a performer, and a conductor all at once. Yet Jhin's masterpieces are flowers on their corpses? Other champions already exist in those domains, which is part of what makes them interesting characters in the first place. is our performer / conductor of music, is the actor / performer as killer / mastermind, and  is our flower decorator.

It is entirely possible to have multiple characters dip into the same theme as other champions (Annie and Brand are both fire-wielding magic users, for example), but Jhin borrows a lot of different qualities and attributes (both aesthetically and mechanically) but fails to really make them his own. He feels uninspired.

To put this in perspective, I think Jhin fails the Omen test. Can you honestly look at a picture of Jhin in Summoner's Rift and say, "I know, just by glancing at his model, what this guys is all about." Can you? Riot scrapped Omen because everyone who looked at Omen, as they had him on SR at the time, came away with a different take on what he was about: his lore, his nature, how he played, his role in the game. Nothing was cohesive. If we never saw the teaser trailer for Jhin, and only had this image beforehand, what do you think people would have thought? Does he even look like a League of Legends champion?

I have a suspicion Jhin was created with the want to push his kit out the door or trying to meet some champion quota, which is a shame because I really do like some aspects of his kit. And I fully expect his 'lore' to be just as vague and brief as many of our other champions. Oh well, at least his icons look cool.