2011-02-14, 03:05 AM
Dark Link Wrote:Also my last game, I found a big interest in Xin Zhao. That hero has some insane abilities. How hard is he to play right? I saw a couple JTV stream games where the player jungled as Xin and he was a beast.
Xin is amazing and one of my favorite champs. Melee champs tend to be a bit harder to play imo, but xin is one of the strongest and there for a bit easier to learn. First thing, xin can jungle but he is slow, i mean really really slow AND he is absolutely amazing in a solo lane once you figure him out. You can jungle if you really have to and his ganking power is amazing, but being in lane will really provide more for your team. Guardsman Bob is a really good xin player, he is like 1800ish elo so not the highest but up there and he streams quite often on solomid.net. Try to catch a game of his if you can. Hotshotgg is also very skilled with him, but he doesnt seem to play him anymore.
I kinda feel like i lost what i wanted to say, but the idea of xin is to charge in at the enemy carry and just blow them up. You can look up the details of his moves on the LoL website, but the idea is the charge the target, use your ult and just chain slow and knock up til they are dead.
Arpen and attack speed are the main stats you want on xin, ghostblade is perfect for him. Also want to build him tanky. There are quite a few little details about him that i could go on and on about but i feel like im starting to ramble and my post has lost all sense of direction.
TL;DR Go play Xin, he is a blast.
Older hotshot clip, was around release when xin was super op, but still a general idea of how xin is played, which hasnt changed. Couldnt find a video of guardsman bob.
[video=youtube;CHw1_Csup84]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHw1_Csup84[/video]