Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-7878249-20130424030228/@comment-27010991-20130521175713

It's good that you brought up the running away part. Xin isn't the only one who's ultimate can be used as an escape mechanism and there's plenty of better ones (for example, Ahri's or Malhpite's). Xin otherwise only has gapclosers, he has nothing to escape with, therefore adding such utility to one of his skills is only appropriate. Furthermore, Xin Zhao isn't a very tanky champion in most cases (as in he benefits more from offense than defense, he's not Olaf or Maokai), therefore he needs to establish distance from himself/his target and the rest of the enemy team. I wouldn't mind if that was somehow implemented into one of his other skills, but adding such utility to a non-ultimate would (I think) be a bit too much for a regular skill.

As a side note, let's compare Xin's survivability to that of other champions of the kind. Rengar, Kha'Zix, Jarvan IV, Zed, Jayce and even Garen and Panth probably have better escapability than Xin. Would you still insist that his ultimate doesn't need that extra element that it was given with the rework?