How is Xin Zhao?

warpenguin555··1 votes·689 views

Used to play him alot in season 5, he was one of the main reasons I got to Silver that year. Haven't really touched him since early season 6 when he got a massive overbuff and was banned every game. With his dragonslayer skin out I've been debating on if I should pick him up again. Should I bring him back?

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Randomonium1 votes

He's great for low elo. Definitely a sleeper pick. Though I can definitely see him being less effective in high elo.

6Sfool1 votes

Can't speak for his balance, but I remember hearing that he is either getting a full vgu relatively soon or will be a big part of the diver update (likely early season 8). If you care more about his game identity than whether he is meta, it's too early to say.

XxxLumberJackxxX1 votes

Good but not amazing. Lack of aoe clear hurts him but tiamat feels wrong so a bad early game will hurt you since he falls off a bit late

foinhas1 votes

He's in the exact same situation he has been for the previous secen seasons. Great in early, a beast in mid, disapears in late game

xxxDogmanxxx1 votes

He got a massive overNERF in 6.4, the very next patch after he got buffed, that dropped his winrate to 47% from 52%, then got a MEGANERF exactly 5 patches after that in 6.9 when they removed Devourer and gutted Rageblade, which dropped his win rate to 40% from 47%.

Then he got some health buffs in patch 6.12, which along with nerfs to some of his biggest counter champions slowly allowed him to raise his win rate to 49% over the rest of Season 6, until Fervor got buffed recently in 7.4, which put him at about 51%.

So yeah, it's a good thing you stopped playing him, because he was basically in the shitter for almost the entirety of Season 6 because of that damn "buff" in patch 6.3.

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