High Noon Jhin

First time I locked in High Noon Jhin was back in February 2016, maybe a week after Jhin himself dropped. The champion was brand new, nobody really knew how to play him, and here I was in Diamond throwing out W snares with a cowboy hat on. Felt right immediately. Not sure if it’s just me but this skin just fits Jhin’s personality so naturally that going back to base feels wrong.

What the skin actually changes

High Noon Jhin turns the Virtuoso into a full western gunslinger. The outfit swap is clean: long duster coat, wide-brim hat, revolver-style gun that feels heavier than base. The mask gets reworked into something more bandit than theatrical. Every auto attack has this dusty orange particle trail, and the fourth shot? The fourth shot pops with a sunset-colored explosion that reads perfectly in teamfights.

Q bounces leave these little ember sparks on the ground. Subtle change but you notice it after 20 or 30 games. W fires a golden line that honestly feels easier to land than base, could be placebo but I swear the visual clarity is better. Been running this in Diamond for years and the W hitbox just reads cleaner against the Rift backdrop.

E traps get a western makeover too. They look like little mines with a warm glow, which actually makes them slightly more visible to enemies if I’m being honest. Not ideal. The ult though is where this skin earns its keep. Curtain Call turns Jhin into a proper sharpshooter, the cone gets this golden haze effect, and each shot leaves a trail like a bullet cutting through desert heat. The recall animation has him doing a quick-draw practice that loops perfectly. No new voice lines on this one, kept the base VO, but Quinton Flynn’s delivery already carries that dramatic flair that fits the western theme anyway.

(Random aside: I once had a Jhin mirror match where both of us had High Noon and the particle overlap during a bot lane 2v2 was genuinely beautiful chaos.)

The High Noon line and where this skin sits

Released February 1, 2016. Alvin Lee nailed the splash, the composition with Jhin drawing his gun in a standoff pose is probably one of the most iconic splashes in the entire High Noon line. Season 6 release, back when High Noon was still a smaller skinline before it exploded into the massive universe it is now with demons and angels and all that.

High Noon Jhin was actually the skin that proved Riot could do thematic skins right from champion launch. Jhin dropped with this as his first skin and it set the bar. The High Noon line has grown a lot since then but this one still holds up as one of the best executed of the set.

8 chromas total if you want variety. Obsidian is my go-to, the dark color scheme turns the cowboy fantasy into something closer to a Clint Eastwood villain which I think suits Jhin’s whole serial killer vibe better than the warm tones. Pearl goes the opposite direction, almost ghostly white that looks wild in lane. Tanzanite is interesting too, the purple tint gives it a supernatural edge that kinda feels like it belongs in the newer High Noon demon lore. Rest are fine but those three stand out. This Epic tier skin sits at 1350 RP. Shop has it, permanent availability, no vault nonsense.

Should you pick up High Noon Jhin?

Real verdict: this is the Jhin skin if you can only own one. I know thats a bold claim when PROJECT and Dark Cosmic exist, but hear me out. High Noon Jhin does something the others dont. It enhances the champion fantasy without overriding it. Jhin is already theatrical, already precise, already a performer. The western gunslinger angle amplifies all of that instead of replacing it with a sci-fi or cosmic overlay.

1350 RP feels fair for what you get. New VFX across the board, a solid recall, particles that read well in late-game teamfights when you’re sitting backline channeling ult. Could be wrong here but I think the reason you see this skin so often in ranked even after all these years is because it just works. Last Tuesday I played maybe six games of Jhin and four of the enemy ADCs were also running High Noon. Thats not a coincidence, thats the playerbase voting with their wallets season after season.

If you main Jhin, you probably already own this. If you’re picking him up for the first time and want one skin to start with, skip the 1820 options until you know you love the champ and grab High Noon first. Spammed this in Diamond across three seasons now and keep coming back to it over everything else in my collection. Simple change from base, huge impact on how the champion feels to play.