User blog comment:AlistarBull/What is the Best Xin Zhao Build?/@comment-24854182-20140613101142

I usually prefer a balanced build, and choose order of building items watching the current game situation.

1)Lizard or Lantern(depens on your personal preference) - when you need damage/Golem - If you need to be more tanky

2) Blade of the Ruined king - gives you a good damage and survivability early game when most champs don't have really high burst damage

3)Mercs - if Lizard is taken and enemy team has some hard CC/Ninja Tabi - if Golem is taken or enemy team has a lot of AA-reliant champs

4)Randuin's Omen - if you see enemy rightclickers getting fed and/or farmed/Sunfire Cape - when your team is having an advantage or when there is another frontliner in your team

5)Hexdrinker - when you need more damage and don't get bursted down in teamfights/Spirit Visage - more tanky option that allows you to stay in fight loner due to healing increse. I recommend building it after BotRK.

6)Trinity Force - a good choice either for rushing after Lizard if you got some early kills and can rip squishy enemies apart or as an item for 6 slot to pop up your damage in late game.

Combination of this items will make you fairly durable and won't allow anyone to ignore your damage. Since you should have fun playing a game and you get fun charging in the middle of enemy team, I'd recommend you to go Golem=>Botrk=>Tabi=>Spectre's Cowl=>Randuin's Omen/Spirit Visage=>Spirit Visage/Randuin's Omen=>Trinity Force, but you'd better experiment with this items yourself. Good luck with that ;)