Jhin Wild Rift Build & Guide

Innate: Whisper

Jhin has a unique attack system. He has 4 bullets that fire at a fixed rate and he reloads for two and a half seconds (2.5s) after running out of ammo. He also reloads after 10 seconds of not attacking or using abilities.

His attack rate does not speed up with attack speed items but it will increase his attack damage instead. His fourth auto-attack will always crit and deal bonus damage based on the enemy’s missing health and critical strikes increase Jhin’s movement speed.

You can have your fourth attack, the sure crit, handy for your next trade through postponing your reload by casting your other abilities. There is no timer to remind you of Jhin’s reloading but he will do an animation with his gun before the reload, giving you enough time to cancel it if you are aware enough.

Jhin can feel clunky and useless while reloading because of the long time it takes so make it a habit to use his other basic abilities while reloading because it won’t interrupt the reloading action.

Q | 1st: Dancing Grenade

Dancing Grenade is what makes Jhin a strong laner. He throws a cartilage that bounces to nearby enemies which have not been hit yet, dealing damage to four enemies. Each bounce deals additional damage if the previous targets are killed. The bonus damage will activate even if the targets are killed by other means (your auto attacks, your teammate’s abilities, minions attack), not necessarily by the bounce, as long as it happens while the bounces are happening.

It is crucial to learn how to time Dancing Grenade to kill minions and hit the enemy champion because it could deal up to an additional 105% damage for a perfect execution of this ability which could easily burn 20-40% of the enemy’s HP. In combination with a fourth auto-attack (AA4 for combos later), this will easily win you trade and the laning phase.

W | 2nd: Deadly Flourish

Deadly Flourish is one of the longest, if not the longest basic ability skill shot in the game so far. It passes through minions to deal only 75% damage and stops on the first champion hit. If the enemy champion has been damaged by Jhin’s basic attack, abilities or slowed by his traps, or damaged by an allied champion, the champion hit will be rooted as well.

Because of the root, it is a great high skill combo to land a Deadly Flourish unto an enemy champion who walked into a trap because it will deal significant burst damage to the victim.

Deadly Flourish is also a great follow-up to your ally’s crowd controls to extend the time the enemy is CC’d to secure kills.

Do not hesitate to use this ability to secure last hits, especially cannons, when you are far away from the minions.

Flash can be used after casting Deadly Flourish as a defensive maneuver. The projectile will fire as usual, unaffected by the Flash and if it hits, it will hasten Jhin as if a crit was procc’ed due to Jhin’s innate passive.

E | 3rd: Captive Audience

Captive Audience is a trap ability that is invisible, provides vision, and slows the enemy as the initial effect then explodes dealing magic damage after a while. If Jhin scores a takedown on an enemy champion, it also triggers a trap that immediately explodes on top of their corpse.

Jhin is a fairly immobile champion so he relies on his traps to be safe during the laning phase. Spread your traps around bushes near the river to counter ganks and spread a few traps around the lane bushes for offensive opportunities. Save one trap for clearing your lane fast.

Place a trap on top of an enemy recently crowd controlled by an enemy then use your W, Deadly Flourish, to execute a high damage combo.

Jhin deals a lot of damage in team fights when the enemy team is caught in a strong crowd control like Malphite’s Unstoppable Force because when an enemy is killed with the help of Jhin, a trap will explode on its corpse and might trigger a chain reaction of AoE damage from this ability.

Those with a Teleport Enchant can teleport to the Captive Audience traps.

R | Ultimate: Curtain Call

Curtain Call is a long-range channeled ability. After a brief delay, you’ll get a bird’s eye view but it won’t reveal the fogged area. You can then recast the ability up to four times each second. The bullets reveal the area it travels and stops at the first champion hit, slowing and revealing them as well.

The bullets of Curtain Call deals damage in a small AoE, allowing it to damage clumped-up champions and it deals more damage the lower the target’s HP is. The fourth bullet also critically strikes and is affected by the enhanced critical strike from Infinity Edge.

Curtain Call has two main uses. First to start a fight as warning shots. The shots will bring down the enemy’s HP, reveal them, and slow them before the fight begins so you’ll have an unfair advantage if they’ll want to go through the fight. This will usually discourage them from contesting the Dragon or Rift Herald. This is also useful for poking enemies while sieging turrets.

The second use, the more popular one, is to execute fleeing enemies. Use your ultimate after the enemy escapes your range and try to hit them with your W, Deadly Flourish first. Your ultimate deals a lot more damage the lower the enemy’s HP is so it is a great execution tool. Although, the enemy’s tanks or high HP teammates will try to block your bullets for their low HP teammates to escape. But of course, pulling off an execution using Curtain Call will always be satisfying.

Combo:

Lane poke: 3rd auto attack + 1st + 4AA

Followup burst: 3rd + 2nd + AA + 1st + AA