Jhin·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Jhin Top build, you should take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Fleet Footwork as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, as well as Celerity and Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build The Collector as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Rapid Firecannon. For your last 3 items, you should build Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards and finish with Bloodthirster. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 49.2% winrate over 124 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Jhin Top build would be to take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Dark Harvest as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, and Coup de Grace with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are The Collector, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Infinity Edge as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rapid Firecannon, Lord Dominik's Regards and Bloodthirster. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 47.5% win rate over 80 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Celerity with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Move Speed, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Statikk Shiv as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Rapid Firecannon as a third item. You want to finish the build with Phantom Dancer, Infinity Edge and Lord Dominik's Regards. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 46.7% win rate across 75 matches played.

Situational Jhin Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Jhin build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.