What people don't realize about the Xin Zhao changes on PBE

Mister Support··2 votes·683 views

Xin Zhao's "terrifying" build at the moment involves item 3931 and item 3124. And most of the complaining for the changes have been directed at the critical strike damage with his W passive.

Now, with Sated Devourer and Xin's W passive, the Sated proc is what will cause the third hit, not his actual attack. What this means, is that since Sated procs all non-basic attack oriented on-hit effects, the critical strike portion WILL NOT occur with Sated devourer. This means that only the other builds of Xin Zhao will utilize this bonus damage, which will mostly help his other builds offer more damage with less sustain than his Devourer build.

As for the heal bonus, this will only be useful for Melee duels and long drawn out fights. This is because Xin is known to be really weak to CC, where is he is locked down for a short amount of time, he can be burst down easily. But if he is against another champion with little CC or range, he will more than likely win due to his stronger sustain on AD builds.

The only "worry" of these buffs are if it would allow Xin to farm the jungle for an extremely long time during his first clear.

Video of the changes. Note: watch when he attacks multiple times in a row, there will be periods of 5-6 attacks in a row with no critical strike. Either it is buggy, or it is not critically striking with the Sated proc. As for other critical strikes seen, remember, this person built critical strike chance, for some of the times where a critical strike happens multiple times in a row. (Go to about 4 minutes to see once he has Sated devourer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR3Bim3F7Ls

Just pointing out how there are times with multiple basic attacks in a row with no critical strike occurring. THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO, GOT IT OFF OF YOUTUBE!

4 Comments

Merxamers3 votes

This is incorrect; i was watching PBE XIn on twitch last night and when sated, the crit occured every other auto attack.

Mister Support1 votes

Put up the video I looked at to check this. You can see moments with no critical strikes happening for multiple basic attacks in a row. Out of curiosity, did the streamer you watch build critical strike chance items because of the changes?

Merxamers2 votes

no; rushed stated devourer, every other auto was the crit animation. not sure what the difference here is; he went rageblade right after

Mister Support1 votes

Huh, curious then if there is some small bug or something. I got the assumption from the video I saw.

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