About the Xin buffs

I see a lot of rage about the Xin Zhao buffs, but c'mon guys you have to look at this from both angles. Xin was suffering due to Thunderlord's being created (as with a lot of other champs). He blows up much faster now as do most champs. This buff was meant to let him live longer in fights to act like his old self, but unfortunately it is aimed at the wrong part of his kit (his damage). The correct thing to have done was to increase the ult stat bonuses from 6s to 6/8/10s as well as give bonus armor and MR on his E. Let's say 3/5/7/9/11. This would have just made him slightly more durable and helped to make up for all of the damage the game has now without inflating his already decent damage.

Thunderlord's is still a major problem whether Riot, the high elo players, or the pros want to admit it. Putting a mini Luden's echo in the game was not a good idea as it inflates early game people and adds to some of the late game champs early game not even taking account that thunderlord's favor's AD innately. DFT is at least a healthy version of an item passive ( ). There is very rarely a time where you decide that DFT outweighs Thunderlord's because most fights are burst fights, not poke fights. If you burst harder in a trade you win the trade, but in poke fights DFT wins after you have built stats.