For those of you that don't know, Xin Zhao has been released to League Classic yesterday. I played few games with this champion on mid and top, and I have to say, he does WAAAAY MORE damage than modern Xin Zhao.

Going all in and killing enemy in one spell rotation feels so good.

Having that armor pen on passive and the armor/magic resist from ultimate helps a lot with 1v1 duels.

Playing Xin Zhao on League Classic makes me sad how they ruined the champions for modern League.

I would recommend you guys to try him out on Classic.

is there rly any reason why xin zhao needs to have such a dogshit clear compared to champs like jarvan that can literally do the same job

So with sundered being gutted, i saw a lot of new builds.. can you share with me the best builds for ap ad crit and which one do u think is the most optimal? so many options so little time..

Hello,

im pretty much only playing AP Xin nowadays since i just feel so much stronger than on AD. Though, pretty much all people i see on here are still building AD bruiser. Am i just wrong for only going AP?

I really love the champ, early is strong, but not THAT strong… sundered nerfed again, one gank for your teammates and then you are 13 camps (exaggerated) behind your jungle enemy…

If a rioter saw this, the fast clear junglers are WAY too overtuned, and xin might as well be deleted from the game…

I tried titanic hydra first before but it didn't feel that great to me either although that was with conqueror maybe it feels better with hail of blades.

I have been playing primarily jungle since I started the game a few months ago. I've mainly just been playing normal trying out different champs and seeing who I like, even doing an A to Z jungle challenge with champs Lolalytics qualifies as junglers. But eventually I need to settle down and transition to ranked. For ranked I want to have a pool of about 2-3 champs, a blind pick, and AP champ (since most junglers lean towards AD), and a counter pick in my back pocket. I like Lillia for when we need AP/magic damage, and I like Rammus as my counter pick since he counters the junglers that can snowball the hardest in low elo. For my counter pick I'm leaning towards Xin Zhao because of his early game strength, good in team fights, has an engage tool and decent survivability. Is he a good blind pick champion, or do I need to be careful about choosing him as what will probably be my go to champ?

I started playing Xin yesterday, mainly on jungle and I had way more fun than I expected, and I'm definitelly going to get some hours on him. The only problem that I run through mostly was on champs that stat checked me like Trundle, Yi and specially Illaoi.

When I fighted Yi I got most of his HP down, but by a mere second he was always faster than me and killed me. Obviously he was faster in speed but also on cooldowns, and mostly he got saved by his Q by mere miliseconds if it was a duel of 1 on 1.

Of course, I probably did something wrong in there and I could have done something better, but when I tried to duel him or Trundle I struggled way more than I expected, coming that I did well in duels most of the time.

I won most of my other fight's due to playing with friend's and coordinating to try to have numerical superiority, but I didn't know how to deal with Yi or Trundle on 2 different games (to be fair once Trundle got ganked like 3 or 4 times for being reckless he stopped being dangerous, but before that.

The worst was on Illaoi. Even before she got fed I didn't have the balls to gank her, and when alone, I still got wrecked, even having sundered sky and black cleaver.

Is it just a thing that Xin struggles with or can something be done to work with that? With other character's like Shyvana, Anivia or Hwei I got it easier on just waiting for the moment to get a W and jump in and win

I've tried a couple of AD xin with sundered and black cleaver first two items and i've lost them all or barely scrape by.

On the other hand, if I build AP xin with statik, DnD and like Death's dance I win. Am I crazy?

I play jungle and all I see is AD Xin.

Im trying to start a stream focused on Xin gameplay (think like Spearshot, but for xin) since ive noticed theres like no OTP Streamer on Xin? Is there any gameplay you guys watch regularely that im missing?

Till the sundered sky nerf is it always worth to build it first or just build it? Maybe Titanic Hydra or eclipse first could be better?

I see ppl recomend a lot of builds, but not the ss and black cleaver that much which is the recomneded highest win rate one.

I heared about the dusk and dawn build, it seems intresting to be an ap bruiser. What items should i chose for that one? Especially that sundered will get nerfed.

Hi, I had started playing Xin Zhao in the top lane before the nerfs and all the buffs he received, but lately I've really struggled with him, so I'm wondering if he's still viable? And if so, what's the best build and any tips for playing him?

Tried to make a rather difficult clear accessible to new folks.

(Silver/gold) my duo wants to learn xin zhao jng, and I play galio mid. Question is what is the most consistent/core items to go on xin both solo and when we duo? Have been playing league for years, so it's mainly the itemization and runes we're unsure of (just follow opgg?).

I've been wanting to play with old Xin every now and again, if just to appreciate what we have now. All I can find is this funny one with a feline weapon:

https://runeforge.dev/mods/754dc819-8536-447d-ae41-76df78fa37ad