Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-32.60.108.73-20120728153403/@comment-178.166.24.118-20120728203458

Perfectly justified. I never played Xin before his rework but I insta-bought him after the patch. 100% win rate so far in a handful of matches at average elo, mostly with complete pubstomps, went as far as legendary status before 15 minutes mark. In my experience, any lane who has even the slightest amount of targeted non-skillshot CC turns into a feed fest for Xin Zhao. Irelia, Malphite, Jax, Riven in your top lane? Feed all day, no matter who the enemy laner is. Twisted Fate, Ryze, Swain, Annie in your mid lane? Feed all day, no matter who the enemy laner is. Alistar, Taric, Leona as your support bot? Feed all day, no matter who the enemy laner is. As it stands, Xin Zhao ganks during laning phase are absolutely insane. I'd go as far as saying Xin Zhao is the NUMBER ONE ganker right now. People might say "Ok, that's a bit exaggerated". No, it's not. In my opinion the top five ganking junglers in the game at the moment are Xin Zhao, Alistar, Maokai, Nautilus and Lee Sin. So what differentiates Xin from the rest of these junglers in terms of ganking?

Alistar: Brutal CC, but he is left with nothing after his combo due to long CDs and lack of proper sustained DPS and AD inducing abilites. He also lacks a ganking ultimate, unless you count it as a towerdiving tool.

Nautilus and Lee Sin: Way more damage output than Alistar, but rely on skillshots to close the gap between the enemy champion. While their ganking potential is strong, it all falls apart by juking their Q.

Maokai: More or less the same problem of Alistar, little damage output when abilities are on CD. He is also less disabling than the cow in terms of CC.

But Xin Zhao... He has it all. High attack damage and attack speed, strong CC, unavoidable gap closer... You either ward and play extremely safely early game or Xin snowballs out of control by stomping your lanes again and again until his own team doesn't need him to take out the enemy laner quickly and without risks.

So, back to the nerfs. I agree that his damage is way too high early game, not necessarily on top lane, where some other laners outdamage him, but specifically when coming out of the jungle. However I do hope they do not nerf him further. His late game is still kinda meh depite his ability to single out someone on a teamfight and clear an area of AoE.