Talk:Jhin/@comment-9775822-20160402180023/@comment-27517474-20160402201405

Speaking as a Jhin main, I kinda always seen Jhin as okay, with him getting pretty strong after the changes to his skills and base stats (then again, I'm bronze going against bronze, so me dominating a game with 27/0/5 against people who didn't know what they were doing or what they should do against Jhin isn't strange). So, first and most obvious, base stats were increased: health regen, health growth, and movement speed. No need to explain.

Secondly, W and Ult were adjusted to apply hit effects as a single target spell, so that means Jhin can abuse the absolute hell out of Deathfire Touch even more than he was able to pre-buffs when only his auto attacks could make full use of the mastery (I always knew DFT was the way to go with Jhin from the start, but these changes just make it an absolute must... unless survivability is your thing,  then Warlords). His traps now consistantly apply marks for the duration of pre-detonation, so visibility is slightly improved and you have more potential root targets than just the one or two that first stepped on the trap and/or caught in the explosion. His turret pushing is slightly better due to him now being able to crit towers so it no longer feels like you're wasting that valuable fourth bullet (well it does but meh). In the 6.4 patch he got all this, and a nerf: attack speed slows now affect bonus attack speed and thus the bonus damage from his passive, so it balances out... kinda? It also helps that now more and more people know what they should do with Jhin compared to the time he came out and was new.

Additionally, I think the whole high mobility assassin meta is losing momentum, something I've noticed; Jhin is highly vulnurable to all the Zeds (Zed is a particular assassin I always ban when playing Jhin) and LeBlancs and Ekkos, etc. I've been seeing less of them.

Right now, I think Jhin is at a balanced position; he can still be dominated by assassins, and if you crush him in lane it's almost impossible to come back. I only have one complaint about Jhin: The description of his E passive says takedowns (meaning Kills or Assists) proc lotus traps on enemies, but I haven't seen them appear on Assits. It's probably for the best as it would make his enclosed space teamfighting absolutely ridiculous but I wish Riot would adjust it to say kills instead of takedowns.