PSA: XIN ZHAO WIN RATE BROKEN

Infiniteskill·Feb 14, 2016·3 votes·755 views

Jk, its actually only 48% Seriously though, I am so tired of this apocalyptic talk about balance, its really not in a significantly worse state than its ever been.

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PunkDisorderFeb 14, 20161 votes

There's balance, and there's just making the game actually fun to play. Poppy had low play and win rates...but the reason she was reworked is because she just wasn't conducive to a fun game. She was either stomping or being useless. Xin Zhao, is in the same boat, except leaning towards the former. He isn't fun. Being dove with an on click gap closer with a slow that slows, followed up with an ult that makes it so that his one counter, peel, can't be used, then three shotting someone...wheres the fun there? Where can you say "Man if I had just played a little better or used better skill and mechanics than him I coulda totally beaten him." Nope. You're slowed, you've been attacked 3 times. You're dead. The additions this patch were unnecessary, and should have been tempered with nerfs to other parts of his kit so he has to REALLY dedicate all of his energy to that three talon strike. But as of now...he just uses it all, then runs out totally unscathed, and only has to wait maybe 2 seconds and he can do it again because of the cooldown refresh on his Q.

P.S. Just checked the updated stats...its 54%

InfiniteskillFeb 15, 20161 votes

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There's balance, and there's just making the game actually fun to play. Poppy had low play and win rates...but the reason she was reworked is because she just wasn't conducive to a fun game. She was either stomping or being useless. Xin Zhao, is in the same boat, except leaning towards the former. He isn't fun. Being dove with an on click gap closer with a slow that slows, followed up with an ult that makes it so that his one counter, peel, can't be used, then three shotting someone...wheres the fun there? Where can you say "Man if I had just played a little better or used better skill and mechanics than him I coulda totally beaten him." Nope. You're slowed, you've been attacked 3 times. You're dead. The additions this patch were unnecessary, and should have been tempered with nerfs to other parts of his kit so he has to REALLY dedicate all of his energy to that three talon strike. But as of now...he just uses it all, then runs out totally unscathed, and only has to wait maybe 2 seconds and he can do it again because of the cooldown refresh on his Q.

P.S. Just checked the updated stats...its 54%

I totally disagree, just because he has a simple kit doesn't mean hes OP. He has a single dash, if you dash after his dash you have a lot of options. And in the end hes very similar to a champ like yi, who is considered very toxic because he has a lot of damage but in reality only has single target damage and can be bursted down. Also, right now im looking at OP.gg and it says 48% which is why I was surprised and why I originally wrote the post. I personally had not seen him being very successful in my games and this only cemented my idea that he was not broken as was being claimed by the boards. I am curious about the discrepancy of our numbers, I dont really look up champion win rate stats very often so it is extremely possible that I'm totally wrong. Thanks anyways for the response.