Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-4948122-20130225184523/@comment-4636093-20130225233358

Indeed. I'm on a rather large winstreak with AP Xin.

If you rush Nashor's Tooth, and then Spirit Visage (Replacable with Frozen Heart if the enemy is heavilly AD based), you can get your E down to a tiny 2.5 second cooldown with help from Xin's Q (or 3 seconds after the nerf). Slot your boots which will always be Mercury Treads somewhere in between the two.

Following this, buy a major armor item. Zhonya's should do the trick. And you should find that you can now backdoor turrets from full health to 0 without taking any damage (if you went for frozen heart instead of spirit visage then you can skip this and just buy more AP).

Then aim for ether a Malady if they have burst, or a Rabadon's if they don't.

Use: Hybrid pen Reds (or failing that Attack speed), Armor yellows, Ability Power Blues, and a combination of Ability Power and Movement Speed Quints.

He's powerful at levels 1-3 then falls off for a time until level 9, so play safe during this time. Late game however he becomes an unstoppable healtank requiring multiple ignites to take him down (if you get hit by one then use your ult to dissengage and wait it out).