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,- Morello, Lead Community Designer, via the official forums.
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."