Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-124.148.49.2-20110625043834/@comment-3486816-20110626094951

Look, I can't speak for post-nerf Xin Zhao since I haven't played enough since the patch, but pre-nerf could potentially get 90 armor and mr in one swoop. That's around 3000 gold worth of resistances in terms of Negatron cloaks and chain vests, on a champion who already has 1050 gold worth of attack speed on a passive that's doubled by a temporary buff, 2700 gold worth of AD as a Buff on a short cooldown due to the CDR from the W buff, and an AoE 40% slow on a Dash. That's a ridiculous amount of buffs. If you look at his skills, all of them have 2 components, each of which is good enough to merit being a decent skill by itself most of the time. I honestly think that if you took away just one component of any one of his skills completely, he'd still be absolutely viable without being the faceroller I can't help but see him as. Let me again suggest the CDR on the W buff. WHY THE HELL IS THAT THERE? That is, in my opinion, what really pushes him over the top. If he could jump into a fight and take out a single target and then have to wait for cooldowns on his CC like, say, Poppy, Nasus, Nocturne, Tryndamere, etc... all of the high damage melee carries that even have CC in the first place, then I'd be fine with that. I'd still be highly annoyed at his gap-closing ability and his ability to absolutely murder a single target, but I'd be fine with it because he wouldn't be able to kill my entire freaking team. When he pulls out a second TTS and a Second Leap to kill a second or third champ, however, that's where I take issue with him, and the combination of his ridiculous amounts of buffs make that almost inevitable mid-game unless you have nothing short of a veigar or a nasus to shut him down.