Talk:Jhin/@comment-4091261-20160113180852/@comment-2179912-20160114031418

In contrast to Xerath, staying far away forces him to use W and ulti, and his W is not exactly a gigantic nuke. As Riot said, if he gets too close he gets gibbed since he's extremely delicate and has no combative tools, and if he gets too far he'll be useless after he ults.

These things are exactly what differenciate him from Caitlyn and Varus and TBH I like it. He's meant to deliver death "in four acts" (his kit has three four-part abilities in it). No less (most of his damage is in the final strike of each cadence) and no more (ulti has and Q only 4 shots/bounces and passive has to recharge).

Therefore his ulti is meant, like his other tools, for delivering a perfect, dramatic death from afar (if a million range doesn't make it dramatic IDK what does :P) but in contrast to Cait, while they both have traps and fuction from long range, he's meant to either start off close and finish them off, or snipe them first and then step in and get intimate, and his root, traps and passive all compliment his need for planning -- his traps do nothing with poor planning.

Cait on the other hand can just chuck 5 of them at once and deny huge areas while sitting in her safe zones and attack from 650+ range... and anything that stays in her effective range (let alone step on a trap) never leaves alive thanks to her ulti. Jhin would not function with Cait's ulti and Cait would not function with his, even though his feels more "snipey".