Xin Zhao needs some love.

Posted on at 1:06 PM by Moobeat

Xin Zhao, a long with the other tanky DPS champions, received quite a nerf yesterday. Unlike champions such as Irelia or Renekthon, Xin Zhao is rarely seen in High ELO play and was sort of struggling to hold his own in most senses. The forums went ablaze with topics demanding justification for the harsh nerfs to Xin Zhao. Morello posted around in a few of them that they were internally discussing the power level of the Seneschal of Demacia. Here are the results Riot has decided to relay to the community. Feel free to check out the thread of origin and submit your own advice regarding them matter.

"Hey all,

The recent Xin nerfs have been pretty contentious. We've spoken of reverting the nerfs, but we had some other ideas to make him better in all elos (previously, Xin had a really hard time against organized teams anyway).

These are just a couple ideas we're tossing around.
* E becomes physical, scales with AD.
* R scales with AD.

The mistake here was not doing a nerf/buff patch at the same time. I think the change was good, but was not accompanied with appropriate changes to help his core problems."
 - Morello, Lead Community Designer, via the official forums.

19 comments

  1. edApril 13, 2011 at 1:17 PM

    they should make him better

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  2. King ElysiumApril 13, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    MMORPG's companies always nerf things that dont really need to be. Happens in every single game.

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  3. BTN Hip HopApril 13, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    man that sucks they lowered his stuff

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  4. Biff TannerApril 13, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    Damn it!

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  5. UnknownApril 13, 2011 at 3:46 PM

    such cases

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  6. WolleApril 13, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    I can remember when he was released he would wipe the shit out of every champion

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  7. Meghan MoranApril 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    It's gonna be a constant balancing act.

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  8. spacemanApril 13, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    lol some of these mmos are too intense for me XD

    I don't really do the medieval thing. lol

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  9. AlexandraApril 13, 2011 at 5:06 PM

    too bad! <3 heres some love for him lol <3<3

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  10. The EmancipatorApril 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM

    interesting, to say the least.

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  11. Kicking RocksApril 13, 2011 at 6:07 PM

    still looks cool though

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  12. DogShepApril 13, 2011 at 6:09 PM

    Give him the love!

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  13. Aaron M. GipsonApril 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM

    Well one way to NOT get love is to demand it from the business end of a razor sharp pike...just sayin'.

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  14. AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    well damn that's no good

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  15. AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    Nerfs sucks especially when you use the character =/

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  16. RabidmooseApril 13, 2011 at 7:34 PM

    Sad to see that he was nerfed.

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  17. J.R.April 13, 2011 at 8:36 PM

    Always hate seeing things gets overnerfed into the ground.

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  18. Body1April 14, 2011 at 3:37 AM

    COOlll

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  19. modernbApril 14, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    Skill doesn't matter when they look that cool :D

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