User blog comment:Supp0rt4n00bz/Broken Xin is broken!/@comment-13536822-20130728154047

Well, this would be my first comment since I signed up, and I'm not exactly 30 yet, but here goes... From the lowly position I'm in (i:e not ranked) I will only see xin on occasion, though yi is definitely seen a lot more. I really see yi and xin as loosely associated issues. They both: 1: have a low skill level and take little to no skill to use 2. Have incredibly unfair or cheap moves (ex: three talon strike, alpha strike, meditate hard sustain)  3. Have to be ganged up on to even kill later on, and 4. There is almost no difference between high skill play and low skill play. I've seen yis and xins easily escape, dodge, or straight up ignore damage without even really trying. Ok, but anyway, about Xin: he's insanely tanky, and the three talon strike compounds that. Not only that, but he gets a gap closer, which synergizes with three talon strike in a ridiculous fashion. Of all fighter champs, he gets a gap closer (that isn't a skillshot and slows), a w steroid/passive that can both heal him and increase attack speed on active, which synergizes with q, which knocks up, preventing you from even trying to slow him down, and since he's so tanky, it never was like you'd every get him to get off you anyway. tl:dr: kit synergy is ridculous, too tanky, too much disrupt.