Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-25532677-20150102013000/@comment-4636093-20150107115521

I mained AP Xin Zhao for about 3 weeks after AP Trynd got nerfed.

He's not too bad but really difficult to use right. He's the polar opposite of AD Xin who has an amazing early game but kinda falls off, AP Xin has an attrocious early game and an amazing late game where no-one can stop him almost instantly healing to full.

However AP Xin Zhao is not full AP, that won't work. It's more AP Bruiser. Your first priority is to survive enemy burst and you build appropriately to do this rather than to cause damage.

First thing is to max Cooldown Reduction with Nashor's Tooth then Frozen Heart. With 40% CDR your W buff stays up permanently your Q goes down to a 2 second cooldown and your E goes down to a 3 second cooldown. You'll actually be wasting a bit of CDR with this because Spirit Visage is mandatory, if you really don't want to go over the 40% cap then replace Nashor's Tooth with another AP/CDR item like Banner of Command or Twin Shadows and buy an attack speed item elsewhere such as Devourer if your jungling or Wits End if you're not.

As a final note, AP Xin can do something which no other champion can do. He can walk up to a full health enemy turret with no minions with him, then take it out and end up on higher health than he did before. His heal on every 3rd hit works on hitting towers, as does the cooldown refresh on his Q.