State of select AD assassins and tanks.

Cyromo·4/19/2016, 12:19:17 AM·1 votes·244 views

At this point in the season every champion is overpowered in their own way, whether it be matchup's, melee champs, or ranged. Now this is obvious as every champion should have their own strengths and weakness's. Take Renekton Renekton for example. This champion can dominate melee champ in lane and late game but give him a ranged champ to face in lane and he will struggle. This is how champions should be with a high reward for some matchups and high risk for some but this can all change based on skill level. But, when you are picking a champion that can dominate into any matchup and carry with no problem and/or fear of another champion it is obvious something is wrong. Now let's look at Xin ZhaoXinZhao This champion excels with item 3124 due to the ap/ad ratios that he has. Now I'm not saying that it is bad for a champion to rely on or have incredible synergie with an item but, you don't want a champion that is broken and this item shows why Xin Zhao for example needs to be nerfed. For a champion to 1 v 5 you need to have sustain or incredible burst (and luck)Katarina . (I say kat needs luck because she will just get bursted down before any damage now). But, back to the sustain, Xin Zhao's W ability Battle Cry has a passive and an active "Xin Zhao passively will critically strike every third attack, healing on every third hit. This ability can be activated to attack faster. Passive: Every third basic attack Xin Zhao critically strikes his target for 25/37.5/50/62.5/75% additional damage. On every third hit, he heals himself for 30/35/40/45/50 (+0) (+40% Ability Power). Active: Xin Zhao unleashes a battle cry, increasing his Attack Speed by 40/45/50/55/60% for 5 seconds." Now if you know what Xin builds it is normally A jungle item more specifically item 3931 For the attack speed and additional on hit damage. He also builds item 3124 for the AoE damage and additional attack speed as the stacks build up. Part of his W passive is it gives him health on every third hit which will additionally critically strike his opponent. Now Xin Zhao XinZhao will already be getting health every third attack and with his attack speed already being high he will be healing rapidly. Now a real big cheese move for a Xin Zhao would be to build a item 3146 and a item 3065 . The Hextech will give him health back equal to a percentage of damage done and the spirit visage will increase all healing on himself by 20%

I'm not saying we have to nerf every item and champion that work together but Champions should be able to die.

1 Comments

xxxDogmanxxx4/19/2016, 12:51:40 AM1 votes

They've already nerfed Xin Zhao very heavily. -20% attack speed and -30% AP on his W, +2 seconds on his E. That's -20% of his DPS, and -43% (.3/.7) of his previous healing from the Rageblade-Gunblade combo, not to mention the decrease in his gapcloser's effectiveness due to the longer cooldowns. For him to "1v5" means you didn't kite him properly, or lock him down with CC, or you were all haphazardly positioned, in which cases, I'm not sure why you expected to kill him. Most of the time, Xin Zhao shouldn't be able to get to the backline without getting kited to hell.