User blog comment:CrockamhillDrive/Proposed Xin Zhao Rework/@comment-27386364-20151215010530

@SilentSilverSash Your scenario is kind of unrealistic.

First, movement speed does have a couple of soft caps. With Xin Zhao, you can only add about 70 movement speed before the next point onwards become only 80% effective, and after getting to 490 movement speed, the next points drop to 50% effectiveness.

Second, there are currently champion passives that increase bonus movement speed up to +175% (Jinx) and those aren't too OP.

Third, you'd have to do so many auto attacks against champions just to get a reasonable amount of percent bonus movement speed. Xin Zhao is a melee champion. It's not like enemies will just let you walk up to them and auto-attack them.

A trade will realistically have this Xin Zhao throw maybe 3 to 6 auto-attacks. That's 1% bonus movement speed gained at most. A team fight will realistically have this Xin Zhao throwing around at most double that number of auto-attacks, since he'd be relying on his abilities to do most of the actual damage. That's 2% bonus movement speed gained. Obviously, it would benefit Xin Zhao the most to force as many trades and team fights as possible, but realistically, how many winnable trades and team fights would Xin Zhao really have in a single game?

Still, you do make an interesting point. What do you recommend? I would really like to incorporate the bonus movement speed and would appreciate your input. Maybe I should make it flat movement speed instead of percentage? Thanks for reading the proposed rework!