Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-175.142.192.178-20120724165607/@comment-24.145.121.197-20120725074140

To the first responder... with armor shred, how much armor the target has doesn't matter much... you end up with about the same damage increase if he has 1,000 armor or 1 (1 because, armor can go into the red and INCREASE damage done above 100%). And % armor reduction like his passive actually make armor shred more valuable, not less, when you consider the calculation.

I'm not weighing in on a defensive build, really, just clarifying that point. Personally, since I bought him, I've mostly just been trolling Dominion with him as an AD carry... his AD scaling is obscene, and makes his arpen and crit scaling obscene once you have a bunch of AD... critting people for 1,200 an attack with my Q at 85% crit chance... it's... wrong, lol. 3,600 damage in about a second and a half to squishies with the full build. Even tanks *fear* me 1v1 once I have about 4 items, since the build I use includes LW :P

Glass cannon Xin may not be practical for ranked play, but to see a tank geared Rammus or Malphite see you standing there alone and RUN like their life depended on it (because it does) is a great feeling :P

In case you wanted to troll Dominion with it... I've just been going Ionian > IE > LW > PD > Sanguine > PD. I suppose you could try a variation on it on SR, but the ganks you'd face in laning phase would be brutal.... and it takes a bit to bloom. You'd need a dedicated support to really get away with it, and get the laning farm you'd need.