Tireless Warrior
Xin Zhao challenges his target with his basic attacks and Audacious Charge, reducing its armor by 15% for 3 seconds. Only one target can be challenged at a given time.


Three Talon Strike
Xin Zhao's next 3 standard attacks deal increased damage that reduce his other ability cooldowns, with the third attack knocking an opponent into the air.
Xin Zhao's next 3 basic attacks deal 15/30/45/60/75 (+1.25) bonus physical damage and reduce his other abilities' cooldowns by 1 second. The final strike also knocks the target into the air.

Cost: 30 Mana
Range: 0s


Audacious Charge
Xin Zhao charges an enemy, dealing damage and slowing all enemies in the area.
Xin Zhao charges and challenges an enemy. The charge deals 70/110/150/190/230 (+0.6) magic damage to all nearby enemies and slows them by 25/30/35/40/45% for 2 seconds.

Cost: 60 Mana
Range: 650


Battle Cry
Xin Zhao passively heals every 3 attacks and can activate this ability to attack faster.
Passive: Xin Zhao heals himself for 26/32/38/44/50 (+0.7) every third basic attack.

Active: Xin Zhao unleashes a battle cry, increasing his attack speed by 40/50/60/70/80% for 5 seconds.

Cost: 40 Mana
Range: 0


Crescent Sweep
Xin Zhao fiercely sweeps his spear around him, dealing damage to nearby enemies based on their current health and knocking them back.
Xin Zhao unleashes a sweep around him that deals 125/225/325 (+1.0) plus 15% of target's current health in physical damage and knocks enemies back. Xin Zhao gains 15/20/25 Armor and Magic Resistance for 6 seconds for each champion hit.

Challenge: If a challenged target is hit by the sweep, it is unaffected by the knockback.
Cost: 100 Mana
Range: 500

Scales with:

- Armor penetration

Version: 1-0-0-109

* Three Talon Strike cooldown changed to 10 from 12/11/10/9/8
* Crescent Sweep base damage reduced to 125/225/325 from 125/250/375

Version: 1-0-0-110
*Quintessences of Fortitude reduced in effectiveness by about 20%
*All Champions with mana had their base mana regeneration increased by 2.5 mana per 5 seconds and mana regeneration per 5 seconds per level increased by 0.2

Version: 1-0-0-115
* Battle Cry duration reduced to 5 from 7
* Crescent Sweep duration reduced to 6 from 8
* Audacious Charge cooldown adjusted to 16/15/14/13/12 from 18/16/14/12/10

Version: 1-0-0-116
* General
o Base Attack Damage increased to 59.1 from 52.3
o Attack Damage per level decreased to 3.1 from 3.3
o Fixed a bug where Three Talon Strike could be activated while it was still active
* Battle Cry
o Passive Attack Speed is no longer removed while the ability is on cooldown
o Attack Speed increased to 20/25/30/35/40% from 15/20/25/30/35%
* Crescent Sweep
o Armor and Magic Resist reduced to 25
o Now scales and gives 7/10/13 Armor and Magic Resist for each champion hit
V1.0.0.120:
*Crescent Sweep:
o Enemies' current health percentage to damage ratio reduced to 15% from 20%.
o Bonus armor and magic resistance per champion hit reduced to 5/8/11 from 7/10/13.
V1.0.0.124:
* Three Talon Strike:
o Knock up duration slightly reduced.
* Audacious Charge:
o Slow duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 1.75.
V1.0.0.125:
* Xin Zhao's tooltips properly display numbers in their passive as they update
V1.0.0.131:
* Crescent Sweep:
V1.0.0.140:
Fixed a bug where Three Talon Strike did not take critical damage modifiers into account.

V1.0.0.143: Rework
Stats:
Base attack speed increased to 0.672 from 0.658.
Attack speed per level increased to 2.7% from 2.5%.
Challenge (Passive):
Xin Zhao challenges his target with his basic attacks and Audacious Charge, reducing their armor by 15% for 3 seconds. Only one target can be challenged at a time.
Three Talon Strike:
Now reduces his other ability cooldowns by 1 second with each strike.
Attack damage ratio increased to 1.2 from 1.0.
Cooldown reduced to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds from 10 at all ranks.
Battle Cry:
Passive: heals Xin Zhao for 26/32/38/44/50 (+0.7 per ability power) every third basic attack.
Active no longer reduces other abilities' cooldowns.
Cooldown reduced to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 24/22/20/18/16.
Mana cost increased to 40 from 35.
Audacious Charge:
Now challenges the target.
Damage increased to 70/115/160/205/250 (+0.6 per ability power) from 70/110/150/190/230 (+0.4 per ability power).
Slow increased to 25/30/35/40/45% from 20/25/30/35/40%.
Slow duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5.
Range reduced to 600 from 650.
Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12.
Crescent Sweep:
Now knocks all unchallenged targets back.
Now has a 1.0 bonus attack damage ratio.
Cooldown increased to 100/90/80 seconds from 75 at all ranks.
Armor and magic resist bonus adjusted to 15/20/25 per champion hit from 25 + 7/10/13 per champion hit.
Now has a new particle effect.

V1.0.0.144:
General:
Base Attack Damage reduced to 55.3 from 59.
Attack Damage per level increased to 3.3 from 3.
Audacious Charge:
Damage reduced to 70/110/150/190/230 from 70/115/160/205/250.

V1.0.0.148:
Three Talon Strike:
Fixed: Bonus damage no longer applies to critical strikes.
Audacious Charge:
Fixed: Slow is now reduced by Tenacity.

V1.0.0.151:
Crescent Sweep:
Now properly procs spell vamp and other effects (e.g. Rylai's slow).

Greater Mark of Desolation 9x Greater Mark of Desolation - Stacks with ult and Q

9x Greater Glyph of Magic resist

9x Greater Seal of Armor

Greater Quintessence of Desolation 9x Greater Quintessence of Desolation

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