I have played League since season 1 (probably).
I always had passion for playing games little differently and trying to think out of the box to suprise and mainly have fun.
That's what my youtube channel is all about.

This time I bring you build from my recent video about AP Xin Zhao.
A lot of things that I am going to say are not going to be 100% correct.
These guides are just my point of view, so take it more as an inspiration than a complete manual to follow.

Passive Every 3d Attack - HEAL ╰ (´꒳`) ╯ Restores 6-74 (+65% of ability power) (+0.1 per attack damage) health.

Q Next 3 Attacks - Refresh Cooldowns, last one - knock up Xin Zhao's next 3 attacks deal an additional 16 / 25 / 34 / 43 / 52 (+0.4 per attack damage) physical damage and reduces his other ability's cooldowns by 1 second. The third attack also knocks up for 0.75 seconds.

W SINK - thrust with your mighty Fork Xin Zhao slashes, dealing 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 (+0.3 per attack damage) physical damage, then thrusts, 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+ 90% AD) (+ 65% AP). Enemies hit by the thrust are slowed by 50% for 1 seconds. Champions and large monsters hit by the thrust are marked as Challenged for 3 seconds.

E Jump In and get milion Attack Speed Xin Zhao charges an enemy, dealing 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+60% of ability power) magic damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 30% for 0.5 seconds. Xin Zhao also grants himself 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% attack speed for 5 seconds. Audacious Charge's range is increased on enemies that are Challenged.

R SINK - "everybody out except YOU!" he last champion Xin Zhao damaged with an attack or Audacious Charge is Challenged for 3 seconds. Xin Zhao unleashes a sweep around him that deals 75 / 175 / 275 (+110% of ability power) (+1.0 per bonus attack damage) plus 15% current health as physical damage and knocks back all non-Challenged enemies. Afterwards, Xin Zhao becomes immune to damage from enemies outside the sweep range for 4 seconds.

Positives

Negatives

+ Different + Opponents can't counterpick + Heals + More Heals + Eve more Heals + Pretty good poke + Good all in power + Can heal from bad trades + *Evil Laug* check this build RAMMUS

- You are going to get flamed - Doesn't have good form of escape - Requires getting used to

The main Idea are his heals on passive.
They scale pretty massively with AP, and can give you pretty good sustain in lane.
Also all of his other spells except Q scale with AP.
The scalling isnt something super special, but its good enough.
With help of some Abillity haste you can cycle through spells like your friend George cycles through old people.
Combine it all together and you can get annoying sustain machine that negates all the damages he gets.

At least in theory.

This build, as well as lots of my other builds is strong in the sence, that most of the people don't know what role you are playing, so it's really hard to counterpick you. Another thing is that they will have no idea how to play against you nor what to build.

They are going to have problems because they probably never played the matchup. They are never going to expect you going AP, so their Runes and Items should be for armor at first. Technically that is correct, because 3 of your spells still do Physical Damage, even tho two of those scale with AP.

As seen in the video, the main fun is the crazy healing.
It is so satisfying to heal to full health with just few autos after a big trade with just Nashor's Tooth in your arsenal.

The mechanics I know are probably just the top of the iceberg for Xin Zhao mains.
But I hope it will help some of the new Xin Zhao players understand the basics.

Q auto attack reset Description The most fundemental thing for me is that your Q is an auto attack reset. That means, that it is best to atack and immediatly press Q, for another quick auto attack. That way you will abuse the time between the attacks.

Passive Stacks Description Another important thing is, that your passive stacks will not dissapear. So if you for example used two auto attacks and recall, and you come back to the lane , your next attack will be the enhanced/healing one. (3d one)

If you didn't like the Guide and the Video unfortunately Xi Jinping will be calling soon.

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