Should You Main Jhin? Tier D
Jhin is tier D for maining. Only 24 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 1,346,202 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Jhin scores 1.74 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 1.74 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 2 Challenger · 22 Grandmaster · 151 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 1,346,202 games played worldwide · 14.61% pick rate · 2.49% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
For ADCs, going to get into ADCs, Jhin is pretty bad right now, but that isn't to say he's always bad. I'd say it's pretty difficult as a main champion to play Jhin. Just because you don't have many escapes.
He's similar to Ash. You're basically a utility ADC. You have two challengers playing Jhin and 22 grand masters.
So it does look like the limit has been reached around challenger. Like very I guess of all the people like the 15% of players it has a 15% pick rate basically and of those people like only only two have reached challenger. So very difficult champion to play.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.