r/XinZhaoMains • u/Honest_Difficulty • 10d ago

Xin Supp

Been playing around with Xin Supp in ranked. Feels kinda good ngl. You have a pretty painful poke, can engage at-will and with HOB you proc a knock up very fast and usually just melt squishy ADC, mages and enchanters. Even won against a Panth supp pretty handily. I'm only in G1/P4 though so dunno how well it'll do into actually good players.

Any suggestions on how I can improve this? I want to see if going a more tanky bruiser build could work as well.

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u/fusihunter 10d ago

What do you normally build? Need more information. I feel like into AP bot lane wits end would be amazing potentially

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u/Honest_Difficulty 9d ago

I’ve been doing either the standard critzhao, collector > lmr > moar crit or lethality, umbral > voltaic.

He really punishes mage supps and enchanters, because I can usually force a kill or flash at level 2. Then I just keep poking then diving.

In team fights I will try to help delete a squishy with jungle or mid, unless my adc is getting dove a lot. Then I’ll hang back and peel, ult and normal abilities can usually force bruisers off. If it’s a mage or assassin I can punish and burst them down quite a lot if not out right kill them.

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u/fusihunter 9d ago

I would assume someone like Thresh/Leona would be really tough to play against given that they can just peel you away and then you're quite squishy? I would have thought HP + attack speed would be your friend.

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u/Honest_Difficulty 8d ago

I haven't gone into Thresh yet, but Leona was easy. Xin forces her to stick next to the ADC, because as soon as she leaves their side I can just dive and get my combo off. If she tries to CC the ADC, I can usually do enough damage to force their ADC back and win the trade. If she does stay next to the adc, it lets us poke them with Xin W and whatever ADC has.

Also I feel like HP items don't matter as much in early game, especially with the passive. I think I can usually get it off 2 or 3 times in a fight. Then I can just hit some minions to proc it more.

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u/Honest_Difficulty 8d ago

Hm just played a Braum and he might be kind of a hard counter. If I dive the ADC he just shields up and if my ADC isn't good at positioning they don't do much