User blog comment:Supp0rt4n00bz/Broken Xin is broken!/@comment-5556439-20130729084230

As a massive Xin Zhao fan since S2 I have to somewhat kinda disagree with this.

Your points are correct in the vein of him being STRONG but do you know why he has such high burst damage? Look at his tags.....HES AN ASSASSIN. This is a secret evidently. No one ever mentions the fact that his skill set is intended to assassinate someone. You prime W/Q, E onto a squishy, and R everyone away from him so he can keep violating said squishy. Then you just run off like nothing happened because if someone stupidly decides to chase you well, theyre going to have a bad time.

Win Nhao is most effective when built as a CARRY jungler starting with Sotel/Mobi Boots. Then building into a bursty item like Yoummuus. After that you shuld build according to the match. I used to run Xin at bottom with a friend who would play someone like Maokai or a ranged champion with hard CC and burst damage. The results were absolutely sickening, normally Godlike before 15 minutes due to the jungler being dumb enough to come help them and end up feeding us more.

In the end though, Xin's job isnt to be built tanky, his job is to build high burst damage/penetration with decent survivability and follow-up a hard intitation. If he didnt have the tools to do that then he would be absolutely useless. His damage is high against soft targets but whos damage isnt?