Welcome to my guide about Xin Zhao, the Seneschal of Demacia. This guide will be very simple. This means that I won't be explaining every detail about everything.

This will slow a single target's movement speed and it's damage.

This will give you increased movement speed for a short amount of time.

9x Greater Mark of Attack Speed
9x Greater Seal of Armor
9x Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist
3x greater quintessence of desolation

Other Viable Runes:
9x greater mark of desolation
9x Greater Seal of Attack Speed
9x Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
3x Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed

[PASSIVE]
Every 3rd hit will give you health.

[Q]
Adds extra damage to your next 3 basic attacks. The last one will knock your opponent into the air.

[W]
Passively increases attack speed. If you activate it, you will get double the passive attack speed for a short time and every time you attack with it activated your other ability's cool down goes down by 1 second.

[E]
Gap closer that slows enemies around the unit you charge at.

[R]
Your ultimate that deals damage to units around you for a percent of their current health. For the next few seconds, you will get increased armour and magic resistance.

Starting Items:

Start off with and 3x
Or of you're a solo top or against a physical lane get and 5x

Boots To Get:

if you want the attack speed.
if the enemy team has a lot of CC and magic damage.
if the enemy team has a lot of physical damage.

Core Items:

Against Physical?

Against Magical?

Xin Zhao is a decent farmer as his hit animation works well. He can use his Three Talon Strike and Audacious Charge to help him farm. Also, if you bought Wriggle's Lantern it'll help a lot with the proc and you can kill jungle creeps as well.

Generally, people expect Xin Zhao to initiate with his Audacious Charge and Three Talon Strike combo. You can do that or you can go in second after better initiates such as Amumu, Jarvan IV, Gangplank.. etc.