Jhin/Trivia

General

• Jhin was partially inspired by Simo Häyhä.
• Jhin's Deutsch/German title, Der Virtuose, is the masculine original of Sona's title, Die Virtuosin.
• His dance references the Lezginka dance.
  • A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
• Jhin is the first champion who does not actually appear in his own Splash Art.
  • Jhin is the second champion to have a Loading screen and Portrait icon not focus the actual champion, in his case, focus on the mirror image. The first one is LeBlanc.
• Jhin is the first champion to feature a takedown animation on his Classic skin, via Beauty in Death. It should be noted however that the passive effect is not solely for cosmetic purposes.
  • Despite being the only one seen in-game, the rose is just one of the many things he sees when killing someone.
• Occasionally when playing as Jhin, at the start of the game (between your team spawning at the fountain and then minions doing so at nexus) the player can hear a version of the map's theme that fits the style of Jhin's own.

Development

• Jhin and Dark Cosmic Jhin are voiced by Quinton Flynn.
• Jhin's theme, PROJECT: HUNTERS theme and Dark Cosmic Jhin's theme were composed by Edouard "EdTheConqueror" Brenneisen.
• Jhin was the first champion released in 2016 and was the product of the need for a brand new Marksman.
  • His first designer was Jordan 'Wrekz' Anton but his initial concepts ended up becoming the stepping stones for Kindred. Jhin was in production for seven months (the usual timeframe is one year).
• During development, he was called Deadeye.
• The words Jhin and Deadeyed were first datamined from the game's website during his teasers.
  • The Virtuoso's name (albeit misspelled) was even spoken by a Rioter before his reveal.
• His production name and title were 'Jin, the Artisan Killer'.
  • The H was added after being deemed prone to confusion with Jinx, another of August Browning's champions.
• At one point Whisper's fourth shot was able to one-shot a Zed at full health.
• Dancing Grenade used to be able to be recast from an enemy's location but the burden of knowledge was deemed too high.
  • It also used to bounce an unlimited number of times.
• Deadly Flourish used to reveal marked champions for a few seconds even through fog of war.
  • Its tooltip implies Jhin uses Whisper's barrel as a walking cane, which he actually does when not 'performing'.
    • At one point it was basically a 2500-range Javelin Toss.
• Due to miscommunication during production, Jhin differs between artwork and in-game.
  • His eyes are drawn reddish-brown, but are blue in-game.
  • He has seemingly-prosthetic robotic limbs, even though he merely wears golden armor on top to handle Whisper's recoil when fully assembled.
• Blake 'Squad5' Smith was the Quality Assurance Analyst on Jhin and implemented the camera zoom, facing lock and execute damage to his ultimate. It was his work on Jhin that convinced upper management to allow him design his first champion.
• One of the potential names for Curtain Call was "Make them beautiful".
• Jhin's obsession with the number four came about when they found his character defining gameplay, four shots from his passive, which then informed the amount of shots for Curtain Call. His obsession about his weapon was the starting for naturally highlighting the number of bullets in his gun. This is also reflected in many elements surrounding him.
  • His login theme is built around 4-note motifs / written with a 4/4 time signature (each bar is separated into 4 distinct beats)
  • His name and title themselves have four letters and four syllables respectively.
    • A fourth wall breaker is that on common computer keyboards (QWERTY, AZERTY, etc.) the keys that spell his name make the number 4 diagonally.
  • IIII is the archaic and uncommon alternative writing, using tally marks, for the Roman four IV, which uses subtractive notation.

Lore

• His stagename Khada Jhin means "Golden Excellence". As revealed in a "Did you Know" message, Khada Jhin is just a stage name, and Jhin's real name remains unknown.
  • Jhin derives from Mandarin 金 jīn [t͡ɕin˥] "gold" < Old Chinese *kəm "metal < copper, bronze".
    • In Chinese localization, his name is written 烬~燼 jìn [t͡ɕin˥˩] "ashes < remnants", from Old Chinese *dzins < Sino-Tibetan *dzin (also, dzinʔ > 盡~尽 jìn "to end, to exhaust").
  • Khada references the real-life Khata scarf, from Tibetan ཁ་བཏགས kha-btags.
  • His release story was originally named "Golden Excellence" before being changed into "The Man with the Steel Cane".
• Jhin shows traits consistent with obsessive-compulsive disorder focused on the number four.
  • The tally marks engraved on Whisper might be referencing this notation.
  • When he 'performs' in any given nation he makes a number people 'beautiful and perfect'. That number is always a multiple of four.
  • In Chinese and Sino-Xenic pronunciations, 四 "four" sounds like 死 "death" (albeit with different tones, except in toneless Japanese & Korean), leading to avoidance, though unhistorical. Examples:
    • Late Han Chinese: *siH 四 vs. *siX 死;
      • Mandarin: sì [sɯ˥˩] 四 vs. sǐ [sɯ˨˩˦] 死;
      • Vietnamese: tứ [tɯ˧˥] 四 vs. tử [tɯ˨˩˦] 死;
      • Japanese: shi [ɕiꜜ] 四 & 死;
      • Korean: sa [sa] 四 & 死.
  • Whisper can hold up to four bullets/fire up to four times before Jhin having to reload, with the fourth shot being the deadliest.
  • Dancing Grenade can bounce up to four times.
  • Deadly Flourish marks a target for four seconds.
  • Captive Audience reveals units for four seconds.
  • Curtain Call can fire up to four shots, with the fourth being the deadliest.
  • During his joke Jhin drops Whisper and it fires all four bullets.
• Before the Kashuri armories granted him Whisper Jhin used to 'perform' with blades powered by chi techniques passed down from his father.
  • Although he did not craft Whisper himself, he did influence its design and he does craft his own magic-infused bullets. The gun itself, Whisper, is already magical due to being hextech.
    • The device Jhin carries on his shoulder is a Hextech-powered mass accelerator that in turns powers and loads Whisper when it's fully assembled.
• Mind of the Virtuoso depicts how 'artistic' Jhin sees his 'performances'.
  • The rose that appears in game is one of the many things he sees when killing someone.
  • It has been confirmed by a Rioter that his bullets shapes his victims flesh into his choosing or make it move as well as other effects. This was later reflected in Zed comic series.
    • Examples would be the four champions ( Sona, Garen, Vi, and Zed) chosen to be in his teasers. However, these teasers are not canon.
• Jhin appears to be ambidextrous (he fires regular Whisper with his left hand but when fully assembled he fires with his right one.
• Underneath the mask Jhin has a fully functional face, and without his usual outfit he doesn't stand out in a crowd.
• His favorite food is dumplings.
• Outside of the Ionian government, the Shadow Order, the Kinkou Order and a few related people, other Ionians do not know that the Golden Demon was actually a man, and believe that Master Kusho has slain the monster.
• Jhin is around 38 to 39 years old, 4 years older than Zed.
• After the events of Zed: Issue 6, he is likely in prison again.

Quotes

Original Jhin

•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""I live for the applause, you will die for it."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"I live for the applause, you will die for it." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references Applause by Lady Gaga.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""It is by my will alone I set my mind in motion."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"It is by my will alone I set my mind in motion." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references the Dune movie.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion="" You have too many lines."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"20xpx|border|link=Tahm KenchLoL|You You have too many lines." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references the River King having the most quotes in the game.
  • Ironically, Jhin has 241 lines (not counting vocal grunts) while Tahm Kench has about 224.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""I love to perform, but I hate crowds."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"I love to perform, but I hate crowds." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references spellshields being able to block crowd control effects.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion="" Rapid fire? Where's the drama in that?"" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"20xpx|border|link=Rapid Firecannon|Rapid fire Rapid fire? Where's the drama in that?" OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references his need for flair when using Whisper.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""Happiness… is a warm gun."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"Happiness… is a warm gun." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references the eponymous song by The Beatles.
  • This quote also shares similarity to  <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""Happiness is a thermally active temporal blaster."" data-skin="Caitlyn" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"Happiness is a thermally active temporal blaster." CaitlynCircle.png|20px|link=]]
• In the Italian localization his selection quote "Cadranno come, d'Autunno, dagli alberi, le foglie.", They'll fall, like Autumn's leaves from trees) references the poem Soldati ('Soldiers') written by Italian Writer and Poet Giuseppe Ungaretti.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""Sing for me!"" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"Sing for me!" OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references The Phantom of the Opera's song by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""They're puppets. I pull their strings, and then they dance."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"They're puppets. I pull their strings, and then they dance." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] resembles   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""Pull the strings. Watch them dance."" data-skin="Elise" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"Pull the strings. Watch them dance." EliseCircle.png|20px|link=]]
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""Behind every mask... is another mask."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"Behind every mask... is another mask." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] might be referencing Marty Rubin ("Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story."), Kakashi Hatake from Naruto ("Behind this mask... is another mask!") or even Luigi Pirandello.
•   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""This performance needs more… zazz."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"This performance needs more… zazz." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references Metalocalypse.

High Noon Jhin

• When killing certain champions with Curtain Call, he speaks lines referencing various Western movies.
  •   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""Kill Noxians and get paid for it? What's not to like?"" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"Kill Noxians and get paid for it? What's not to like?" OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] and   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""I like the way you die, boy."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"I like the way you die, 20xpx|border|link=TeemoLoL|boy boy." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] play on a quote from Django Unchained.
  •   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""People scare better when they're dying."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"People 20xpx|border|link=FiddlesticksLoL|scare scare better when they're dying." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references Once Upon a Time in the West.
  •   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""It's better to be above ground doing this than below ground doing nothing."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"It's better to be above ground doing this than 20xpx|border|link=Rek'SaiLoL|below ground below ground doing nothing." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] quotes Django.
  •   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion=""It's fun to kill a man, to take all that he had, and could ever have."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"It's fun to kill a 20xpx|border|link=YasuoLoL|man man, to take all that he had, and could ever have." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] references the movie that shares names with Yasuo's title.
  •   <span class="skin-play-button skinloading-icon" data-champion="" You shoot to kill, you better hit the heart."" data-skin="Original" data-variant="" style="position:relative; height:20px; width:20px; display:inline">[[File:"20xpx|border|link=CaitlynLoL|You You shoot to kill, you better hit the heart." OriginalCircle.png|20px|link=]] quotes A Fistful of Dollars.

Skins

Original Jhin

• He might have been inspired by Erik from The Phantom of the Opera, as evidenced by him being an artist in front of an open mirror.
  • He might have also been inspired by Sander Cohen from Bioshock, with both their forms of art involving the number four.
• Jhin's mask resembles Sliske's face in RuneScape.

High Noon Jhin
Chromas: Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, Turquoise

• This skin shares the High Noon theme with:
  • Cowgirl Miss Fortune
  • High Noon Darius
  • High Noon Evelynn
  • High Noon Gragas
  • High Noon Hecarim
  • ...and others
  • High Noon Leona
  • High Noon Thresh
  • Longhorn Alistar
  • Prestige High Noon Evelynn
  • Sandscourge Skarner

• He represents the Cyborg Cowboy he was first conceived as.
• Whisper resembles Boba Fett's EE-3 carbine rifle from Star Wars.
• While recalling he lays back on a bar counter featuring Wanted posters of him, High Noon Twisted Fate and High Noon Yasuo. His bounty is priced at $$6,000,000,000.
• His splash art shows him in mid Curtain Call.

Blood Moon Jhin

• This skin shares the Blood Moon theme with:
  • Blood Moon Akali
  • Blood Moon Diana
  • Blood Moon Evelynn
  • Blood Moon Fiddlesticks
  • Blood Moon Shen
  • ...and others
  • Blood Moon Thresh
  • Blood Moon Tryndamere
  • Blood Moon Zed
  • Blood Moon Zilean
  • Blood Moon Zyra

• The mask he is wearing references the ones used in Japanese Noh theater.
  • The eye holes on the mask each glow with a blue eye or a red eye.
    • However, Jhin's red eye turns blue when he takes off his mask in his laugh animation.

SKT T1 Jhin

• This skin shares the World Champions: 2016 theme with:
  • SKT T1 Ekko
  • SKT T1 Nami
  • SKT T1 Olaf
  • SKT T1 Syndra
  • SKT T1 Zac

• He was released in celebration of SKT T1 winning the Season 6 World Championship along with:
  • SKT T1 Ekko
  • SKT T1 Nami
  • SKT T1 Olaf
  • SKT T1 Syndra
  • SKT T1 Zac
  • SKT T1 kkOma Ward
• He represents Bang and is the second World Championship victory skin for him.
  • It was preceded by SKT T1 Kalista.
  • The idea for the Recall animation was thought up by Bang himself and displays his signature.
    • A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
      • The dance he does in turn references the choreography of Bang Bang Bang by Big Bang.
        • A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.

PROJECT: Jhin

• This skin shares the PROJECT theme with:
  • Prestige PROJECT: Sylas
  • Prestige PROJECT: Zed
  • PROJECT: Akali
  • PROJECT: Ekko
  • PROJECT: Fiora
  • ...and others
  • PROJECT: Leona
  • PROJECT: Renekton
  • PROJECT: Sejuani
  • PROJECT: Sylas
  • PROJECT: Zed

• PROJECT: Vayne's motorbike can be seen in the background.
• His bullet can be faintly seen behind her as well presuming they're both fighting each other.
• His appearance may have been inspired by the protagonist from the game RUINER.

Dark Cosmic Jhin

• This skin shares the Dark Star theme with:
  • Dark Cosmic Lissandra
  • Dark Cosmic Lux
  • Dark Cosmic Erasure Jhin
  • Dark Star Cho'Gath
  • Dark Star Karma
  • ...and others
  • Dark Star Orianna
  • Dark Star Shaco
  • Dark Star Thresh
  • Dark Star Varus
  • Dark Star Xerath

• • Dark Star Rhaast
• Dark Stars are pure Corruptants, Dark Cosmics were Cosmic Entities which have been consumed by the Dark Star.

Relations

• Jhin has some resentment towards Shen, Zed and his father Kusho for imprisoning him.
  • Later, after faking his death with the help of Zed and becoming the leader of the Navori Brotherhood, Kusho unleashed Jhin to terrorize and get control Ionia.
  • He later forced Zed and Shen to work together so he might kill them both for catching him years before.
    • He attacked Zed, Kayn and their order, killing some of the members.
    • Akali tracked Jhin down to Piltover- Zaun and was captured by him, but was later saved with the help of Shen and Zed.
  • Jhin knows the truth about the circumstance of Kusho's "death" and could have revealed to Shen if he had wanted to but didn't as he realized Zed was going after Kusho.
• Jhin has some interest in killing Sona for being a very famous Ionian artist who is taking the spotlight away from his 'performances'.