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Xin Zhao Battlecry AP ratio from 0.7 to 0.5 on PBE

Neo Metalsonicv2·7/1/2015, 2:05:48 PM·2 votes·874 views

Seriously? Because so many people were building AP on Xin Zhao.

If you were playing him you either got warrior enhancement or cinderhulk. After that you usually build cleaver or something other more tanky (or some more damage like botrk if you were fed).

What is the point in this nerf? It seems to be rather useless. I've never seen a Xin build any AP besides the AP from Sheen or Trinity (and trinity is a sub optimal item choice for Xin imo).

Also I seriously hope the new Zeke's and Sated Devourer will be looked into they sound both borderline broken. Especially sated devourer which is an even better version than release feral flare (and that resulted in every team banning 6 junglers and junglers being absolutely broken). But those have their own threads already.

I wonder if Riot knows what they're doing when I read the PBE notes. Even when I read cinderhulk just the base stats and damage it gave in the state it was released in, almost every player knew it was overpowered. Did Riot hire someone new? Regarding the recent strange decisions on the balancing team this seems to be an obvious explanation.

6 Comments

DJ Di07/1/2015, 2:17:53 PM2 votes

They preemptively nerfed the ratio because they're worried that AP splitpush Xin Zhao would become a thing, imo. With sated devourer he'd be able to heal on every 2nd auto attack instead of every 3rd.

As for Zeke's it honestly seems fine; it takes a while for it to charge and only lasts 6 seconds in 'super' mode.

stealthfox947/1/2015, 2:58:32 PM1 votes

(and trinity is a sub optimal item choice for Xin imo)

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