Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-4832742-20130522095549/@comment-9048637-20130529125410

At low levels, maybe. But at high levels, Xin is anything but straightforward to play. Alright, his kit works in a fairly simple manner, but what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that the kit is only one half of the story. The downside to having a very simple kit is that it's very simple to counter you. Take Xin for instance. With his kit, you should just be able to dive into teamfights, Leeroy Jenkins style, right...? ... yeah, then the enemy team hits you with a ton of CC and you die before you do anything whatsoever. High skillcap champions may be more difficult to master in terms of their kit, but once you've got that down, you can do things that the enemy team didn't even know were possible. Low skillcap champions, on the other hand, have instead to learn the subtle arts of things like positioning, gaguing potential teamfights, map awareness... alright, so no champion can get away with not learning any of these things to some degree. But when you don't have fancy tricks up your sleeve, believe me - they become ten times more important.

Back to Xin. If you think, "Hey, this is pretty easy, I just E-->R-->W--Q and things die, right?", then you might have a ball against low-level players, but high level players who've seen your sh*t a thousand times before will CC you, laugh in your face and then banish you to your fountain for the next minute, before proceeding to stomp all over your team because it's now a 4v5 and then probably smash a turret or two, maybe grab Baron, whatever they feel like. What you need to do, therefore, is be patient. Wait. Don't go charging in. Look at what the enemy team are doing. Who's squishy and under-defended? Who's left themself dangerously overextended? Who's lagged behind the rest of their team because they're squishy and haven't seen that you have over 400 MS and can sneak through the jungle to jump their unsuspecting behind? Who's split-pushing while you're all distracted with their main team? And so on and so forth. If you just pick the nearest enemy and charge in, all guns blazing, you'll die unless you managed to get extremely fed beforehand. If you're careful, however... they'll never have seen that pentakill coming. But you have to work for it.