any changes to xin in the preseason?

Eyesack·Oct 15, 2016·2 votes·362 views

Genuinely curious as to whether you guys have put serious consideration into my repeated suggestion of lowering the dash speed of his e and making it free-targeted.

As someone attempting to play him in mid diamond, this would go a LONG way in making him less linear and giving him outplay potential. No idea why you want his shtick to always be melee diver champ without diver tools to do his job.

I mean honestly if you land a 5 man ultimate on xin your reward is literally getting less mr/armor than a fully stacked graves e. And this is an ultimate on a melee champion that does not have multiple dashes like the aforementioned graves.

At the very least i want to see these changes on pbe and if they do come in i would very much like to try them. Maybe im completely wrong after all, but i still want to see riot do something other than giving my champion ANOTHER 3 hit passive.

4 Comments

BananaJannanaOct 15, 20161 votes

Apparently he'll yell "Ryūu ga waga teki wo kuraū!" during his ult

Asayake 5150glowOct 15, 20161 votes

You see, that is why one does not play XinZhao in mid diamond.

Also full Graves E takes forever to stack up.

theminiomOct 15, 20161 votes

Screw xin zao i usually do tank top and the blade of the ruined king is stupidly op

xxxDogmanxxxOct 17, 20161 votes

In my main account, I am a shameless Master/Diamond 1 Xin Zhao main with over 600k mastery points on him. It's gotten to the point that I often feel like I can't even bring him to ranked games anymore because it's almost always an auto-lose. My win rate with Xin Zhao is 44% in Master/Diamond 1, while my win rate with Graves who I have equal games in Master/Diamond 1 with is 59%.

I honestly don't care much about Xin Zhao having no escapes, as long as he has the damage/mobilty to at least assassinate the squishies. Now, Xin Zhao has never had the true mobility needed to deal with the squishies who have multiple dashes or have cc. That's fine.

But ever since his attack speed got nerfed due to devourer, only for devourer to get removed and guinsoo to get gutted, Xin Zhao simply doesn't have that damage anymore, unless he builds for full damage.

But the problem is I can't build full damage. I'm forced to build him tank nowadays because it's the only way I don't get completely dumpstered by the meta enemy junglers who all do far more damage than me.

Aside from his lack of in-kit damage and lack of mobility, Xin's ult is also pretty damn weak. It does no meaningful damage, gives no meaningful resistances, and its stun is so goddamn short that you'd barely notice it. The only thing it's good for is a knockback, but its cooldown is so long that it's not even always available for that.

I don't think that giving him a free-targeted E is gonna help that much. Xin Zhao is currently fundamentally flawed, because he is a champion without the needed damage or cc to do the job that Riot wants him to do.

TL:DR Xin Zhao needs a rework.