Here's a little bit of my view on AP Xin

Movespeed quints are completely out of place, you need flat AD Quints for a DOMINANT laning phase. AD Marks are also extremely highly recommended. Crystalline Flask is completely unnecessary. The Nashor's Tooth -> Zhonya's Hourglass -> Lich Bane is pretty good but please forget about Athene's Unholy Grail... Deathfire Grasp is another big no and so is Liandry's Torment... Spell vamp is another terrible idea on AP Xin, only his E and R work with it and they work at reduced effectiveness (and they have a small AoE)

Rabadon's Deathcap, Iceborn Gauntlet, Spirit Visage and Guardian Angel are all great ideas.

You CANNOT do anything else than 21/9/0 in masteries.. the Spellsword mastery is just TOO DAMN GOOD. Make sure you pick up two points in Brute Force once again for that early laning phase mega dominance.

Starting Doran's Ring is great too, good job.

The guide itself is very empty of everything but walls of text which will make 99% of the readers highly un-appealed.


The skill order is incorrect. You want to do R>E>Q>W. Q is just so much better than W for each point. Compare +45 damage and less CD on your Q (which means you can use it more often AND reduce the cooldown of your E, W and R even more) to +10% attack Speed for 5 seconds and +6 heal per 3rd hit (lol 6, such a pitiful number). Q will give you more CC, WAAAAAAAAY more damage and more CDR in general. Which is CLEARLY better than +6 HP per 3rd hit lol.


Feel free to fight me over stuff, I'm here for that ;3.

Naw, that's not how you play AP Xin son

@Timothy well, his w actually heals him every 3rd hit and also scales with ap aswell.
Also, while this guide needs to be cleaned up, the actually build is ok as far as items go. Have seen others go ap xin zhao using similar items.

I downvoted this simply because your argument for building an AD champion with only one strong measure of magic damage as AP is nonexistent. If you

• Clean up the guide (It's messy and has notable errors)
• Add links or pictures (Walls of text are shied away almost universally on MOBAFire)
• Give an actual argument to this build (Quite frankly, no one of high Elo or lengthy experience would ever recommend this, so have a good reason for making this build)

then I will change my vote to up so that you can accomplish something and build credibility. I won't ask much of someone on their first guide, but stand up on this one and give yourself purpose.

Best of luck,
~Tim