Really nice guide!
Very fun to play ap xin. No one expected me to be an AP jungler, most of team was full AD :P

I really want to ask if Trinity Force will work on AP Xin Zhao, since it also give AD for his Q

Didn't try armor/lv seals yet but you definitely made a point sir. Now that you say it, I feel like I should definitely take those instead as Xin has no early sustain problems anyway. Thanks alot. :)

http://www.probuilds.net/guide/NA/1917065529/25850956

Also, on most junglers with sustain, armor/lvl will probably better seals than armor, if you can get through your first 3 camps. You either want to gank afterwards or back because you would loose gold and sustain if you not upgrade your jungle item now.

I have played AP Xin twice in normals and once in ranked I won easily all of those times but some people were sceptical of AP Xin before I really started killing people. What I found works a bit better was building him as an AP bruiser since the sated devourer increases all of his damage(inculding Nashor's Tooth I think) you dont need to build 5 or 6 damage items. I would build the core build(Bezerkers,Devourer,Nashors,DeathCap) then 2 tank items. Normally I would build Randuins and Spirit Visage but I also tried an option of building Guardian Angle for the passive Armor and MR then a Warmogs since Xin regenerates health so quickly.

Also in the title you do not close the square bracket [] just wanted to let you know

In most cases I use hybrid pen runes myself, they behave a little different but I wrote a little about it in the "Runes" section of the guide.

Hi, have you tested this with Hybrid Pen instead of magic pen?

Thank you for the clarification sortitusa. So actually you benefit from the Sated Devourer in so far that every second auto attack activates the healing effect but as sortitusa already said, this doesn't apply to attacking towers or inhibitors. You still get healed every third auto attack while attacking those. I guess I didn't make that clear in the guide though, gonna fix this.

To clarify, W's heal doesn't proc twice every third attack, or apply every other attack with Sated Devourer. As with Sheen items, the healing charge is consumed by the first attack, so the phantom hit doesn't give you double heals. The passive is also an on-attack effect, so phantom hit doesn't charge it faster, unlike true on-hits like Twisted Fate and Vayne's. It was difficult to differentiate before 5.13 on melee champions due to there being no time delay between an attack and hit.

On the bright side, this does mean that you get healing stacks and procs even if you're blinded or blocked.

EDIT: Just checked, and it's actually a hybrid effect. You get the healing every other hit on anything but structures.

Also, the Q damage is applied by the phantom hit, so you don't lose damage, it's just concentrated in two autos. This is what makes Devourer strong on Xin, as you can get 2 autos out very reliably before the enemy can react.

Hey, a little question about his W.

Lolwiki sais, sated devourer does not interact with the stack generation on his W... I think that would be pretty senseless since it does interact with the stack generation on aatrox W which works very similar and riot even nerfed his heal cause of this. But I don't find any information disproving it and already testen enough devourer intercations for today. Since you seem to know apxz and play him with sated devourer, can you confirm/disconfirm that his heal comes out on every second attack with sated devourer?

Hm, maybe there's a bug that I didn't notice, I'm gonna have a closer look at it.

Nice guide, i play often Xin in the Jungle as ap(our guide) or ad.

But i have a question because for me it looks like that the when i use Three Talon Strike, when i have the new Sated Devourer(one-hit twice) in use. That the third hit don´t get used totaly, that mean great damage loose. Maybe you can see if i´m right?