I've noticed almost every high elo/pro player starting boots+4 pots on jhin and taking biscuits/timewarp tonic secondary. Can anyone explain why or what the advantage is over dorans blade? They even take it into matchups where jhin traditionally bullies the enemy adc like kai'sa/ezreal. Is Jhin a scaling pick now? Or are they using it to outsustain and get pressure?
Posted Feb 7, 2021, 11:19 PM UTC
Jhin always was a scaling champion, just a lane bully too in the process.
I would say it mostly depends on matchup. When you have Soraka, you would absolutely never want to go 4 pots. Biscuit would be meh too, unless you really needed extra mana to maintain some wave control (as that's what Jhin is worst at early).
But generally, just think about it. What do boots give? Movement speed. What is it for? For dodging, positioning and escaping. What does dblade give? Hp, damage, vamp. What are these for? Early all-ins and early midgame scaling.
I'm not the best nor most dedicated Jhin player, but on paper it seems to be a rather defensive buy. You don't get 7 pots for a lane you expect to be winning hard. + Early movement speed is most often used for defense and positioning, adcs rarely roam.
More sustain, easier to dodge skillshots, easier to avoid ganks, easier to follow up an engage. Jhin can't constantly AA to make good use of the stats a DBlade gives anyway
It’s primarily for fourth shot. With boots it’s much easier to walk up and fourth shot the enemy ad. Jhin also scales off ms well due to his passive and is his only real defence.
Jhin has enough damage early, so they probably take it to dodge skillshots and harass more.