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Xin Zhao Passive Ability
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INTRO
What up morons. I'm The Frat God. I have played two champions the most over the course of 2 accounts, #1 shaco, and #2 Xin Zhao. My expertise in Xin Zhao is the fact that I currently have a 64% win rate with the Zhao over the course of 61 games in Gold 1 elo. The highest rank I've been this season is Plat IV and the reason I'm gold now is because I took 2 months off because college...please end me.

I'd like to say that I know my stuff. Now lets cut the BS and get into the real stuff.
So basically it's like this. Since you are maxing your q first in your abilities, you need to compensate for this by getting more AS. This is crucial unless you decide to go RAID BOSS mode and go with the new colossus mastery in which you can practically build any health/armor items and win the stupid game that way. But we aren't gonna be poosies, because your boy is the TFG. We go all in, all day, err day.
Here's how it works
Max q = more AS runes

Max w(fkin idiots) = more AD runes

Now here's where I get funky. Start with AS marks with the 1% crit rune is just for S&G...fugetaboutit. We then go into full armor and 2 AS seals for the memes. And then we finish off with a nice balance of early magic resist 5 flat MR glyphs and a little late game punch with 4 scaling MR glyphs to give a total of 19 additional MR at level 18. Nice memes.
Here's how it works
Max q = more AS runes

Max w(fkin idiots) = more AD runes

Now here's where I get funky. Start with AS marks with the 1% crit rune is just for S&G...fugetaboutit. We then go into full armor and 2 AS seals for the memes. And then we finish off with a nice balance of early magic resist 5 flat MR glyphs and a little late game punch with 4 scaling MR glyphs to give a total of 19 additional MR at level 18. Nice memes.
I have my own little touch of magic that I add to each and every rune page that I create. Xin Zhao of course is no different. I'm just gonna cut to the chase. IF YOU GO WITH FERVOR, YOU ARE A MORON. When you instalock Xin Zhao for 60+ games like I have. It becomes more and more apparent that enemy teams choose CC champions.
CC vs. Xin Zhao = fml, please give me bleach on the rocks
And with Fervor, you are telling the other team, "Asuh dudes, I'm gonna smash my face on the keyboard and run right into you guys hoping to get some stacks and kill some people."
No please god no. Look, the only way you counter this is by 1 of 2 ways. You get tanky as balls and go in there shaft deep in enemies or you get a little damage and a mucho grande amount of sustain via your w passive and the Warlords mastery, and you wreck face. The sustain ya get, the more frustrating it is to deal with ya.
Additionally. I consider the middle row of the mastery page the "mini keystones". These mini keystones are important. The only ones you want to really get for Xin Zhao is this. Bounty Hunter for an additional whopping 7.5% additional instantaneous damage without any debuffs, Greenfather's gift for the ganking opportunities and also counter invade. And Finally fearless. LISTEN TO ME PEOPLE, FEARLESS IS INSANELY STRONG. YOU GET
10% additional ARMOR AND MAGIC RESIST
+ 2 ARMOR AND MAGIC RESIST PER LEVEL. at level 18, thats 36 additional armor and magic resistance.
for 2 seconds.
this is godlike.
Against champions you are dueling with, you have about 2 seconds before they are knocked into the air by q and further burst down. During the 2 seconds they are going to hit you like crazy to get you off of them. If you have 100 armor and 100 magic resistance at level 14 right, that means with the fearless mastery, for the entire 2 seconds they damage you, they have to get through 138 armor and 138 magic resistance.
Why has no one else started doing this. An extra 38 AD and MR resistance is crazy. Please rito why u do dis.
CC vs. Xin Zhao = fml, please give me bleach on the rocks

And with Fervor, you are telling the other team, "Asuh dudes, I'm gonna smash my face on the keyboard and run right into you guys hoping to get some stacks and kill some people."
No please god no. Look, the only way you counter this is by 1 of 2 ways. You get tanky as balls and go in there shaft deep in enemies or you get a little damage and a mucho grande amount of sustain via your w passive and the Warlords mastery, and you wreck face. The sustain ya get, the more frustrating it is to deal with ya.
Additionally. I consider the middle row of the mastery page the "mini keystones". These mini keystones are important. The only ones you want to really get for Xin Zhao is this. Bounty Hunter for an additional whopping 7.5% additional instantaneous damage without any debuffs, Greenfather's gift for the ganking opportunities and also counter invade. And Finally fearless. LISTEN TO ME PEOPLE, FEARLESS IS INSANELY STRONG. YOU GET
10% additional ARMOR AND MAGIC RESIST
+ 2 ARMOR AND MAGIC RESIST PER LEVEL. at level 18, thats 36 additional armor and magic resistance.
for 2 seconds.
this is godlike.
Against champions you are dueling with, you have about 2 seconds before they are knocked into the air by q and further burst down. During the 2 seconds they are going to hit you like crazy to get you off of them. If you have 100 armor and 100 magic resistance at level 14 right, that means with the fearless mastery, for the entire 2 seconds they damage you, they have to get through 138 armor and 138 magic resistance.
Why has no one else started doing this. An extra 38 AD and MR resistance is crazy. Please rito why u do dis.
SO, with that I leave you guys to do with this information as you will.
My ign is The Frat God.
Frikin obviously.
I'm gold one, again, I'll add people every now and then. If I can improve the guide in any way, tell me how and don't keep it to yourself. I'm open to suggestions. I'm probably gonna play seriously after finals are over for the semester. Other than that I gtg fegs.
Peace out
My ign is The Frat God.
Frikin obviously.
I'm gold one, again, I'll add people every now and then. If I can improve the guide in any way, tell me how and don't keep it to yourself. I'm open to suggestions. I'm probably gonna play seriously after finals are over for the semester. Other than that I gtg fegs.
Peace out
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