Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-26001789-20150507061309/@comment-25688877-20150512044610

He has great damage, but when you look at the kit you see a few things:

All in engagement, you can't build Full AD on an All-In champion. He doesn't have the mobility to get out of combat, nor does he have an AD scaling defense like Riven, or moment of invincibility like Yi's Alpha Strike.

His Ultimate gives a lot of bonus Armor and MR, which are stats that greatly depend on Health (Ever try just building resistances without health?  You're still squishy).

His passive, while it may stack multiplicatively with Black Cleaver, makes him great in the tank meta for enabling Carries/AD Casters to take down beefy targets.

Brutalizer does great at dueling and Ghostblade + Brutalizer is an amazing Mid game power spike. If you're going team fight Xin Zhao though, Black Cleaver.