Lets talk about the over excessive kit that belongs to Xin Zhao

LlamaSpeed··2 votes·584 views

OK, so lets talk about xin zhao, and his almost retarded kit, before i continue i should state that i may be wrong about what i'm saying and Xin might just be super balanced, but after seeing tons of Xin Zhao carries, i decided to do some research and discovered an almost unstoppable kit.

  • Passive (mark a target decreasing their armor by 15%) Ok, an armor shredding ability thats alright, he's a melee champion and deserves some tank busting power, this is understandable, but lets continue

  • Q - Next three auto attacks deal Bonus physical damage(ok)... AND decreases the cooldowns of his abilities by 1 second each auto attacks ANNDDD knocks up on the third hit.... one of those 3 have to go...

  • W - Every third auto attacks heals xin zhao, cool thats some nice sustain, BUT can activate the ability to get attack speed, i think the attack speed portion may be excessive but only because of the rest of xins kit.. and i believe one of these 2 have to go if the Q is left alone

  • E - Xin charges an enemy, slowing them. TBH this ability is fine... EXCEPT FOR THE KNOCK UP IN THE Q ... >.> too much cc, but wait thats not all!

  • R - Xin pushes all enemies except challenged enemies away! what a wonderfull way to really let xin focus down their ap or adc, but... each enemy struck gives xin armor and magic resist, now that is HELLA excessive

**My point is, why does it feel like all of xins abilities are more than one ability... honestly i feel like a lot of his kit is excessive and honestly just gives him too much, Lets take a tally of what the guy has... **

-> Hella CC -> Tank busting power -> Crazy Sustain -> Team fight power -> Innate tankiness -> Great gap closer with slow -> Attack speed buff -> Attack damage buff -> Flat cool down reduction

This put together creates an almost immortal being, and it is only my opinion that one out of the list of those benefits xin zhao recieves should be removed. I think xin is a great champion and he doesn't really need all of this extra stuff, Thanks for viewing my post, if you have any opinions of your own or on another champion feel free to post in reply, once again i could definitely be wrong about this, and if i am, let me know why, thank you once more for reading through all of that, i greatly appreciate it.

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Maximum Zilean3 votes

Complaining about Xin zhao when Rek'sai exists?

RekSai does everything Xin does, and more. -Dueling potential -Early game gank power -Good snowball potential -Knockup to start fights -GLOBAL TELEPORT

Only thing Xin has over Rek'sai is an isolation ability.

And if your QQ'ing about Xin because he was picked in a few LCS games, you want to know why he was picked? BECAUSE REK'SAI WAS BANNED OR TAKEN BY THE ENEMY TEAM.

And Xin is a decent fall back in those cases since both have similar early game roles.

LlamaSpeed1 votes

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Complaining about Xin zhao when Rek'sai exists?

RekSai does everything Xin does, and more. -Dueling potential -Early game gank power -Good snowball potential -Knockup to start fights -GLOBAL TELEPORT

Only thing Xin has over Rek'sai is an isolation ability.

And if your QQ'ing about Xin because he was picked in a few LCS games, you want to know why he was picked? BECAUSE REK'SAI WAS BANNED OR TAKEN BY THE ENEMY TEAM.

And Xin is a decent fall back in those cases since both have similar early game roles.

I agree rek sai is strong at the moment, but what xin has that rek sai doesnt is extreme CC and innate tankiness, then again rek sai has true damage and a lot of mobility so honestly, both are really strong

3TWarrior1 votes

reksai heals while tunneling, can detect nearby units while tunneling if they're not in sight, has ridiculous early clear times, a move speed bonus, a 1500 range ability, a dash at will mechanic so long as the tunnel survives or otherwise one of the longest dashes there is

is it even a dash? seems like underground would fit blink better

Injustice4All2 votes

If he thinks Xin is OP now. Someone should tell him a story about Xin Zhao's release week.

Current Xin is fine as is. Obvious strengths and weaknesses.

3TWarrior1 votes

you're complaining about xin, really? the guy is one of legue's oldest champs and ahem, an auto attack only champ other than his ult and gapcloser

he has to build tanky because otherwise he is just deleted by anyone who sees him

the damage on his Q is fairly high, that might be changed, but it's not really an issue

compare this to the many champions who see next to no use at all because their kits can't handle the meta and many metas when they change

for instance, dr mundo used to be league's definition of tank...he's still tanky, but he lacks what most other tanks have, effective damage

mundo excels at chasing targets he can stick to...this does not include the enemy carry, the enemy mage, typically not the enemy support...so that leaves the jungler and tank/fighter

tristana was just reworked with an entirely new kit mechanic...you see her more often than mordekaiser(this week's champion) and both almost not at all

same with evelynn and others...it's getting ridiculous

YossarianSensei1 votes

Lmfao lemme guess, your team doesn't ward and got 3 Talon struck up the butt during the first 10 minutes of the game?

DrCyanide1 votes

Just played against Xin today. I'm familiar enough with his kit to know "has dashes, 3rd auto knocks up, can knock away" (third auto healing strikes me as more of an AP Xin build, but I haven't looked closely). He wasn't very problematic, and he certainly didn't feel over powered, which matches every other experience I've had with Xin. In the hands of the right player he can be very strong and hard to go against, but that's true for almost everyone.

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