Xin Zhao: Warrior or Devourer?

IronChefBoyardee·1/15/2015, 3:24:34 PM·1 votes·12,574 views

I like jungling XZ, along with Reksai and Olaf, but I never really know which item to choose for Xin Zhao. I've done both Warrior and Devourer builds and they both work really well. Warrior helps scale my Q/R but not my E/W, gives me solid armor pen for my ganks, and just in general is a nice immediate power boost, even if it falls off later in the game.

Devourer scales slowly but ramps into being incredibly powerful, gives me a decent amount of mixed damage but doesn't scale any of my abilities. However it gives me a little more freedom when building because I can go tankier earlier and just farm up a little to get some damage.

What's the "optimal" build for Xin?

6 Comments

Laughing Fish1/15/2015, 3:37:03 PM2 votes

Both are fine choices, but personally I woul go Devourer. The mixed damage and increased AS will make you much harder to counter, and it synergizes nicely with lifesteal items should you choose to build them.

RiotRiot 10YearSanta1/15/2015, 6:58:29 PM2 votes

I've had a lot of success on xin, I typically build devourer into shyv+lvl 1 boots. After that I build tank. It's worked out pretty well for me. With this item configuration I end up with a 60/40 phys/magic damage split. What's good about this setup is that it gives you a lot of AS which means that you are more likely to get your knockup off, and that's what I find important for Xin; landing the slow and then landing your knockup.

The Chin1/15/2015, 8:02:30 PM1 votes

I actually tried this for the first time yesterday, after getting wrecked by someone else doing it in solo queue.

Yes, warrior is super strong and I think you can get away with not building AS because he's got a steroid on his W.

And the early CDR felt really nice too... I think I'm going to go warrior with xin every time now.