6.4 PBE. Xin Zhao getting nerfed to the ground as usual. The new Warlord's Bloodlust sucks ass.

I knew it was too good to last. In 6.3, Riot finally gives a decent and much needed buff to Xin Zhao (who was consecutively nerfed fourteen times before). 75% increased damage every third hit is a 25% increase in dps. Cool, I honestly think he needed it, since he was being outclassed by basically all of the other Devourer jungle champions.

But due to outcry from a lot of players who apparently don't know how to deny Xin Zhao his late game, in 6.4, he is being nerfed to the ground again.

In the next patch, his heal is being gutted from a .7 AP ratio to .4 AP ratio. Goodbye, 21.6 heal from Guinsoo's Rageblade AP. Goodbye 24 base heal from Hextech Gunblade AP. That's 43% less healing.

But the horror doesn't stop there, they're also gutting his attack speed by 50%. For an auto-attack reliant champion, that's basically an entire 50% decrease in dps. - 20% attack speed from his heavily nerfed W and - 30% attack speed from the useless new Warlord's Bloodlust. That's literally an entire item's worth of attack speed now completely gone from Xin Zhao.

The end result of just two weeks is basically a 25% decrease in dps and 43% less heal for Xin Zhao from patch 6.2 . Congratulations Riot, you did it again. God knows you should once again heavily nerf one of the already most nerfed junglers in the game.

The last one about the new Warlord's Bloodlust is what's seriously pissing me off though. They removed the crit interaction on Warlord's Bloodlust. They removed the attack speed. They nerfed the lifesteal to hilariously useless levels. To get to 20% lifesteal from this new Warlord's Bloodlust, you have to be at 80% missing health. At that heath percentage, literally one basic attack from anyone with a Duskblade of Draktharr will kill you. Not to mention all the damn Execute abilities in the game that would delete you off the face of the map. What good is lifesteal if you get deleted before you can make use of it?

What's the game plan, here? Does Riot seriously love Thunderlord's Decree so much that not only do they not nerf it, they heavily nerf the other keystones too?