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Spells:
Smite
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Items
Ability Order
Determination (PASSIVE)
Xin Zhao Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
LeBlanc
I cannot tell you how many times LeBlanc has shut down my game. DO NOT ENGAGE HER unless you have a teammate with a silence, such as Cho'Gath. She WILL kill you, you WILL die, and there will be nothing you can do about it, regardless of how much magic resist you make.
Introduction



CORE ITEMS:

This little bastard is what makes Xin Zhao so monstrously powerful. When it becomes sated, several things happen.


Your devourer enchantment will do 120 magic damage every other attack, which equates to 90 magic damage every attack.



This item adds extra AD and AP, and while that's really nice, the real power behind it is its' passive. With each attack, you gain extra attack speed and damage. After landing 4 attacks, you gain an AoE that pops on-hit, dealing magic damage that scales with your AD and AP with each attack.

This item is your main source of sustain. We want it for the AP and AD it provides, as well as that passive heal for 15% of total damage dealt. We also like the active ability, which damages enemies and applies a slow, as well as giving us an extra damage outlet for our AP rather than just looking at our


ARMOR

I tend to buy this pretty much every game, because it gives a good balance of health and armor, and the enemy team doesn't tend to have a champion that shreds through armor. The active is nice too, as you can dive them, hit them with your



I really don't like using thornmail if I'm not playing

MAGIC RESIST

This item will increase all healing coming toward you by 20%. This is why I tend to get this item for my magic resist needs.

The only reason I would even suggest this item is to block some of



AD ITEMS

This beauty works wonders for you. It's your source of attack speed, chasing ability, burst, and early game sustain. It has 2 passives. The first one, rage, increases move speed by 20 on basic attacks and 60 when you kill anything. The second one, Spellblade, adds 200% of your base attack damage as extra damage on the next basic attack when you use a skill. Since your opening move is to dive the enemy with E while activating Q, the next basic attack when combined with this will pretty much take most their health unless they're a tank. Combine with


This item is more a tanky item than it is an AD item, but when the 25% increase to base AD is combined with the 200% base AD sheen proc passive in


This item supplies massive AD, 10 armor penetration, and gives you a mini



One increases lifesteal, the other increases health. Both have an on hit effect, which by now everyone knows we love because of devourer. Go with either one if you want. They're both useful in their own situations, and both will provide sustain in their own way.
BUT WHAT SMITE SHOULD I CHOOSE?!



AP ITEMS

It's kind of like



Good for burst. Proc's when you dive the opponent with your E, and scales off AP. Supplies move speed, which is always nice.

The best AP item for Xin Zhao when building devourer in my opinion. Not only does it give 80 AP and increase attack speed, it takes AP and scales it into your attacks, which means every single one of your basic abilities scales off AP. As if that wasn't enough, this item applies its' damage on hit, which means it synergizes with devourer.
BUT I WANT BOOTS!!!! YOU NEED BOOTS!!! BOOTLESS FEET ARE FOR NOOBS!!!!
Then buy boots. When you lose out on damage, defense, and kills because you filled one of your slots with something to make you run faster (cough cough half the potential items in this build give you move speed too), don't come crying to me. Even if you buy





If they are, move to the far end of the grass, and come out as far behind the enemy midlaner as you can, and then come out. Dive at them with E, and as you fly at them, activate Q and W. You probably won't outright kill them unless they're either too low on health to get away or too stupid to get out of range, but it will relieve pressure on the midlaner for them to farm or back, and if the enemy midlaner doesn't back, then you gave mid an easy kill.
You should have (depending on the mid lane gank) between 400 and 800 gold right now. Upgrade your smite and get a

If the lane you are closest to could use a hand, then give it. By now you should have another 300 gold ready. Back and get another dagger, and then farm up more gold using this tactic and get

As you level, you should take





You're a jungler. Take smite. If you don't, then get out of the jungle.

Good for gap closing, good for wall jumping, good for engage, disengage, skill dodging, skill blocking, you name it, flash does it. Except instant pentakills. Flash doesn't give pentakills.

Good for chasing, but not as good for engage or disengage as flash, and 0 wall jump power.

Yeah, secure a kill, and listen to Pentakill's album, Smite and Ignite, while you do it. Might be worth sacrificing some mobility early game.
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