Tanky DPS Xin Zhao

[quote=Jebus McAzn]There are so many goddamn ways to build Xin Zhao and I'm not quite sure of the angle I want to go with yet. I just bought him and I plan to jungle with him, as he's actually quite a good jungler now that they've buffed him. Sure, he's great in lane, but now you can afford to run him in jungle because he's not terrible anymore. ANYWAY, I want to build a tanky DPS route with him, and not straight up offense (I-Edge, Black Cleaver, Ghostblade). Items? I've seen a Trinity Force route that I liked but was impractical, I've seen Frozen Mallet+Atma's, I've seen a lot of stuff. Not sure what to go, tbh. Not even sure what boots to get. >.> also @boosh: Thanks for the advice, but I decided on Xin because I'm much more familiar with the jungle than I am with lane and Jarvan's just a shitty jungle anyway.[/quote]

[quote=Jet]honestly not familiar with what they've changed with him, but assuming he has sort of the same role as before the buffs (aim to deal heavy damage in burst while keeping your self beefy to remain in the team fight / to easily dash in and walk out for harass) (also with the hog nerf not completely sure) and since you plan on jungling, dunno how good he is in it tho madreds mercs (or berserkers if you need more damage / they don't really have amazing CC) hog (i'd imagine you'd want more gold before finishing wriggles, completely depends on the way your game is going and if you are buying regular wards pre-wriggles) wriggle catalyst (heard it's changed a lot, so not too sure)/negatron randuins banshees then situation to "do i need more damage" or "do i need to stay alive longer" atmas would be a good item to take for both, assuming its the same dunno if warmog/atma any good on him, know guardsman bob used it a lot when he played xin but that was months ago the cool thing with xin is he can deal heavy burst without any damage items, so you can really focus all of your items towards "look at me, i'm a fucking tank" spec[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]i dont really like madreds on xin. i like to use the cloth armor to build into a randuins though.[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]@Jet: catalyst is unchanged IIRC, it's banshee's that got the nerf i'll probably build something like that but with a ghostblade before catalyst[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]what i like to do, end build wise and in no order is something along the lines of situational item black cleaver ghostblade boots of situation randuins banshees[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn][quote=caucheka] boots of situation [/quote] lol'd[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]well i usually like swiftness boots but merc treads and possibly ninja tabi work good too. (ninja tabi if you have dodge runes and the nimbleness mastery. otherwise worthless.)[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]i would pretty much go either merc or AS boots AS boots give a huge advantage early game still if i see an AD heavy CC low enemy team i'll be running ninja tabi and nimbleness i do 1/16/13 masteries in any case[/quote]

[quote=PFP]arp marks armor seals mr per lvl glyphs arp quints http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item-purchase-planner#&item=12-27-27-27-27-27-1-108-92-68-82-101-41-36-46 sell wriggle's for i-edge if game is 60 min long new wit's end is OP on him, since his AS is so high[/quote]

[quote=tinolas]Well, I go for Wriggles + Youmuus every game I jungle with Xin. After that it is situational. Banshees, Atmas, Frozen Mallet, Wit's End, Force of Nature, Randuin's Omen, The Black Cleaver ... God, there are just so many good items on him :)[/quote]