Talk:Xin Zhao/Strategy/@comment-174.34.128.226-20111011132635/@comment-89.210.180.184-20120617025822

hi i am the 1800+ season1 player again

in general xin zhao needs (damage+tankiness+some attack speed+arpen) to be effective, cause he has no scaling. he scales with damage most since he has attack speed buff.

1.u need tankiness cause you will be in the middle of fights (armor/magic resist)

2. u need large health pool so you wont get bursted (extra hp)

3.u need damage cause you are autoattacker

4.u need some autoattack speed, cause it synergizes well with w (can skip attack speed)

5.u need armor pen, cause ulti deals physical damage, plus for autos

6. u need lifesteal cause you are autoattacker (passive not that good to rely)

From these, you can see the ideal items for xin:

randuins=1 (usuallly the ad carry will target you, good)

black cleaver=3+4+5 (expensive, delays 1, good if snowball)

frozen mallet=2+3 (good)

brutalizer/yummuus/lw=3+5 (yumuus really good now)

trinity force=2+3+4 (delays tankiness so much, good though)

wriggles=1+6 (core)

wits end=1+3+4 (good)

atmas, b.veil, fon, warmogs, ga good too (costly though)

aegis, spirit visage can help too

shurelia = really good, never get kited

and so on

so you see he needs many different stats