Xin Zhao

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Comp identity — Jungle

Leans Attack — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Attacknatural · 70%
Catchnatural · 60%
Splitworkable · 30%
Xin Zhao brings the frontline and engage that start the 5v5. Enough Catch and Split sits in the kit to punish a caught enemy before the fight starts. Passive Determination consumes 3 stacks from attacks/abilities for bonus damage plus a self-heal scaling with max HP and AP.

Kit quirks

Passive Determination consumes 3 stacks from attacks/abilities for bonus damage plus a self-heal scaling with max HP and AP
Q's third empowered attack knocks up the target, while each cast also cuts other ability cooldowns by 1s
R sweeps for physical (current-HP%) damage, knocks back/stuns non-Challenged targets, and grants Xin Zhao invulnerability against enemies who aren't in melee range of him

How Xin Zhao actually performs in ranked solo queue · 89 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Jungle51% WR · 81.3 games
Top49% WR · 3.9 games
Mid50% WR · 2.7 games
Bot49% WR · 0.9 games
Support49% WR · 0.5 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

Lee SinJungle+2%

Hardest matchups

No losing matchups recorded.

Dragons & win rate

Win rate when Xin Zhao's team secured at least one of each drake, next to the all-champion rate in that same state. Teams that take dragons are usually already ahead, so every champ wins more with them — the honest read is the gap, i.e. whether Xin Zhao beats the average team that also has the drake. Single-drake samples are thin; treat small counts as suggestive.

Cloud61%vs 60% avg+2pp150g

Hextech63%vs 62% avg+1pp142g

Infernal59%vs 60% avg-1pp140g

Chemtech58%vs 62% avg-4pp129g

Mountain (Earth)63%vs 59% avg+3pp121g

Ocean58%vs 63% avg-5pp118g

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Xin Zhao — The Seneschal of Demacia

Class: Diver
Resource: Mana
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Physical
Positions: Jungle
Released: 2010-07-13 (V1.0.0.96)
Last changed: V26.21
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	620	+106	2422
Health regen (per 5s)	8	+0.7	19.9
Mana	274	+55	1209
Mana regen (per 5s)	7.25	+0.45	14.9
Armor	35	+4.4	109.8
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	63	+3	114
Attack speed	0.645	+3.5%	1.029
Attack speed ratio	0.645
Attack range	175
Movement speed	345

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Selection height: 138.8889
Selection radius: 108.3333
Pathing radius: 35
Attack cast time (s): 0.29
Attack total time (s): 1.55

ARAM: damage dealt ×0.95

One for All: damage dealt ×0.97 · damage taken ×1.02 · healing ×1.2

URF: damage dealt ×1 · damage taken ×1.1

Ultimate Spellbook: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.05

Abilities

Passive

Determination

Innate: Xin Zhao's basic attacks on-hit and Wind Becomes Lightning's first slash hit and thrust on at least one enemy hit each generate a stack of Determination, stacking up to 3 times. The third stack consumes them all to deal 15% / 30% / 45% / 60% (based on level) AD (+ 5% / 10% / 15% / 20% (based on level) AP) bonus physical damage and heal Xin Zhao for 2% / 3.5% / 5% (based on level) of his maximum health (+ 40% / 50% / 70% (based on level) AP).

Innate - Challenge: Wind Becomes Lightning and, if Crescent Guard has been learned, Xin Zhao's basic attacks and Audacious Charge, apply a Challenged mark to certain enemies hit for 3 seconds. Only one enemy can be marked as Challenged at a time; applying the mark to a new target removes it from the previous one. Audacious Charge and Crescent Guard have interactions against Challenged targets.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: SelfDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: See NotesParries: Missing

Notes (22)

The healing and bonus damage work on different stacking systems, each counting its stacks and being consumed separately. While both stack on-hit, the bonus damage stacks are consumed on-attack, and the healing ones on-hit.
The healing stacks are denoted in the buff-bar.
If Guinsoo's Rageblade were to trigger when the stacks are at maximum, they will grant the healing but not the bonus damage, thus causing an out-of-sync between the stacks shown in-game versus when the bonus damage is dealt.
Only the initial slash of Wind Becomes Lightning can generate a Determination stack. Slashes after the first do not count for stack generation.
The stack counter displays 1–3 rather than the usual 0–2, meaning that a count of 1 does not translate to having 1 stack.
Stacks reset when Xin Zhao dies.
Stacks of Determination will be gained even if the attack is blocked.
PENDING FOR TEST:: Determination's interaction with parrying effects ( dodge, blind).
Determination deals proc damage.
Since it is a separate instance of damage when applied by basic attack or either of Wind Becomes Lightning's strikes, flat damage reduction that applies to both the main and bonus damage such as Amumu's Tantrum's passive will reduce each, for twice the reduction.
The bonus damage cannot critically strike.
When applied by a basic attack:
The attack uses a unique animation.
The bonus damage benefits from life steal.
PENDING FOR TEST: It applies life steal specifically.
Neither the bonus damage or heal will be blocked by spell shield.
When applied by Wind Becomes Lightning:
Triggers against the closest target struck by the first slash/thrust (equals first target to receive spell effects).
Does not benefit from life steal, including not healing from Wind Becomes Lightning's 33% conversion for this bonus damage.
Since proc damage is 'single target', Vamp will heal from 100% of the bonus damage.
The bonus damage will be blocked by spell shield, the heal will not.
Spell shield will block the mark application from Wind Becomes Lightning, but not from basic attacks and Audacious Charge.

Map-specific differences (1)

Heal AP ratio changed to 85% AP.

Passive

Determination

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: SelfDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: See NotesParries: Missing

Notes (22)

The healing and bonus damage work on different stacking systems, each counting its stacks and being consumed separately. While both stack on-hit, the bonus damage stacks are consumed on-attack, and the healing ones on-hit.
The healing stacks are denoted in the buff-bar.
If Guinsoo's Rageblade were to trigger when the stacks are at maximum, they will grant the healing but not the bonus damage, thus causing an out-of-sync between the stacks shown in-game versus when the bonus damage is dealt.
Only the initial slash of Wind Becomes Lightning can generate a Determination stack. Slashes after the first do not count for stack generation.
The stack counter displays 1–3 rather than the usual 0–2, meaning that a count of 1 does not translate to having 1 stack.
Stacks reset when Xin Zhao dies.
Stacks of Determination will be gained even if the attack is blocked.
PENDING FOR TEST:: Determination's interaction with parrying effects ( dodge, blind).
Determination deals proc damage.
Since it is a separate instance of damage when applied by basic attack or either of Wind Becomes Lightning's strikes, flat damage reduction that applies to both the main and bonus damage such as Amumu's Tantrum's passive will reduce each, for twice the reduction.
The bonus damage cannot critically strike.
When applied by a basic attack:
The attack uses a unique animation.
The bonus damage benefits from life steal.
PENDING FOR TEST: It applies life steal specifically.
Neither the bonus damage or heal will be blocked by spell shield.
When applied by Wind Becomes Lightning:
Triggers against the closest target struck by the first slash/thrust (equals first target to receive spell effects).
Does not benefit from life steal, including not healing from Wind Becomes Lightning's 33% conversion for this bonus damage.
Since proc damage is 'single target', Vamp will heal from 100% of the bonus damage.
The bonus damage will be blocked by spell shield, the heal will not.
Spell shield will block the mark application from Wind Becomes Lightning, but not from basic attacks and Audacious Charge.

Map-specific differences (1)

Heal AP ratio changed to 85% AP.

Three Talon Strike

Cost: 30 ManaCooldown: 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5Cast time: none

Active: Xin Zhao empowers his next three basic attacks on-attack within 5 seconds to each have an uncancellable windup, deal bonus physical damage and reduce his other abilities' current cooldowns by 1 second. Each attack refreshes the duration.

Bonus Physical Damage: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 45% bonus AD)
Total Bonus Physical Damage: 45 / 90 / 135 / 180 / 225 (+ 135% bonus AD)

The third attack knocks up the target for 0.75 seconds.

Three Talon Strike's bonus damage is affected by critical strike modifiers.

Three Talon Strike resets Xin Zhao's basic attack timer.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: See NotesParries: Blocked

Notes (3)

Spell shield will only block the knock up.
The enhanced attacks present input buffering during their wind-up animation (Xin Zhao cannot be issued any commands until after it ends).
The attack counter displayed on Xin Zhao's status bar is incremented on-hit.(bug)

Map-specific differences (2)

AD ratio changed to 30% bonus AD.
Cooldown changed to 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6 seconds.

Wind Becomes Lightning

Cost: 60 ManaCooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8Cast time: 0.5Range: 1000 • 940Effect radius: 275 • 125Width: 80Angle: 160ºSpeed: 6250Queue threshold: 0.3

Active: Xin Zhao unleashes 4 slashes in an arc over the first 0.15 seconds of the cast time, each dealing physical damage to enemies within. After the remaining cast time, he then thrusts his spear in a line in the target direction, dealing physical damage to enemies hit, increased by 0% – 33.3% (based on critical strike chance), and slowing them by 50% for 1.5 (+ 0.5 per 100 AP) seconds. Wind Becomes Lightning deals 50% – 100% (based on level) damage to minions. The farthest champion or large monster hit within the thrust's area is also marked as Challenged and is revealed for 3 seconds.

Physical Damage per Slash: 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 (+ 7.5% AD)
Slash Total Physical Damage: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 (+ 30% AD)
Thrust Physical Damage: 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+ 90% AD) (+ 65% AP)
Total Physical Damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+ 120% AD) (+ 65% AP)

Wind Becomes Lightning's damage heals Xin Zhao for 33.3% of his life steal.

The durations of Three Talon Strike and Audacious Charge's bonus attack speed are delayed relative to Wind Becomes Lightning's cast time. Xin Zhao reveals himself during the cast if there is an enemy champion nearby.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (14)

PENDING FOR TEST: The self-reveal has not been fully tested for complete confirmation. Is the ability invisible when hitting minions and there is no enemy champion nearby? Is the tip of the ability enough to reveal him? Whether it can hit a minion or not? Just if he's around the exit of the fog of war, and even if he points towards the inside of the fog of war? [1]
Spell shield will block both the slashes and the thrust.
If the spell shield blocks the first, or sometimes the second slash, it will block the rest of the ability, including the thrust. If it is activated after the first slash, it will only block up to 2 slashes and will not block the trust.(bug)
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
The thrust will occur from wherever Xin Zhao is at the end of the cast time.
The slashes will occur from wherever Xin Zhao is at the time during the first 0.15 seconds.
Wind Becomes Lightning maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Xin Zhao if he moves during the cast time.
The direction of the slashes will not move during the cast time.
The first strike's hitbox includes a 275 radius 160° cone in front of Xin Zhao and an additional 125 radius around him.
The second strike's hitbox includes the same 125 radius around Xin Zhao, a missile with 1000 range and 80 total width, and a -60 radius area check upon the end of the missile.
The 125 radius check does not hit champion summoned units.(unexpected)
Because Wind Becomes Lightning uses an older type of 'healing based on life steal' and not applies life steal, Spirit Visage will amplify the life gain twice (+25% life steal and +25% healing), for a total of +56.25%.
Each of Wind Becomes Lightning's slashes are applied in a separate damage instance from each other.
This causes effects like Bone Plating to be applied twice and Black Cleaver's Carve to be applied multiple times.

Audacious Charge

Cost: 60 ManaCooldown: 11Cast time: noneTarget range: 650 • 1100Effect radius: 250Speed: 2500

Active: Xin Zhao dashes to the target enemy's location, dealing magic damage to them and nearby enemies and slowing all targets hit by 30% for 0.5 seconds. Audacious Charge's range is increased against Challenged targets.

Magic Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+ 120% AP)

Xin Zhao then gains bonus attack speed for 5 seconds.

Bonus Attack Speed: 38 / 46 / 54 / 62 / 70% (+ 10% per 100 AP) (+ 1% per 4% bonus attack speed from non-buff sources)

Three Talon Strike and Crescent Guard can be cast during the dash.

Targeting input: UnitTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target unit to castAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedGrounded: DisabledKnockdown: Interrupted

Notes (3)

The primary target cannot dodge Audacious Charge's effects.
The target will always emit the area of effect from their position.
Audacious Charge has a forgiveness radius of 200 units.

Map-specific differences (3)

Damage AP ratio changed to 90% AP.
Bonus attack speed changed to 5% per 100 AP.
Cooldown changed to 13 seconds.

Crescent Guard

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 120 / 110 / 100Cast time: 0.35Effect radius: 500 • 450

Passive: Xin Zhao's basic attacks and Audacious Charge apply the Challenged mark to enemy champions hit, with the latter applying the mark to the farthest champion hit in the area of effect or the primary target if they are a champion.

Active: Xin Zhao sweeps his spear around him, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies, capped at 600 against minions and monsters, and knocking back all targets hit that are not Challenged up-to 700 units over 0.75 seconds, as well as stunning them for the same duration.

Physical Damage: 75 / 175 / 275 (+ 100% bonus AD) (+ 110% AP) (+ 15% of target's current health)

For the next 4 seconds, Xin Zhao is invulnerable against enemy champions far away from him.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (3)

Pets, traps, ground AoEs, DoTs, and delayed-damage abilities (e.g. Death Mark, Explosive Charge, Hemoplague) will not damage Xin Zhao if the enemy champion source is outside the circle when the damage applies.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Displacement immunity will also resist the application of the stun.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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Wind Becomes Lightning

Cost: 60 ManaCooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8Cast time: 0.5Range: 1000 • 940Effect radius: 275 • 125Width: 80Angle: 160ºSpeed: 6250Queue threshold: 0.3

Physical Damage per Slash: 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 (+ 7.5% AD)
Slash Total Physical Damage: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 (+ 30% AD)
Thrust Physical Damage: 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+ 90% AD) (+ 65% AP)
Total Physical Damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+ 120% AD) (+ 65% AP)

Wind Becomes Lightning's damage heals Xin Zhao for 33.3% of his life steal.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (14)

PENDING FOR TEST: The self-reveal has not been fully tested for complete confirmation. Is the ability invisible when hitting minions and there is no enemy champion nearby? Is the tip of the ability enough to reveal him? Whether it can hit a minion or not? Just if he's around the exit of the fog of war, and even if he points towards the inside of the fog of war? [1]
Spell shield will block both the slashes and the thrust.
If the spell shield blocks the first, or sometimes the second slash, it will block the rest of the ability, including the thrust. If it is activated after the first slash, it will only block up to 2 slashes and will not block the trust.(bug)
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
The thrust will occur from wherever Xin Zhao is at the end of the cast time.
The slashes will occur from wherever Xin Zhao is at the time during the first 0.15 seconds.
Wind Becomes Lightning maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Xin Zhao if he moves during the cast time.
The direction of the slashes will not move during the cast time.
The first strike's hitbox includes a 275 radius 160° cone in front of Xin Zhao and an additional 125 radius around him.
The second strike's hitbox includes the same 125 radius around Xin Zhao, a missile with 1000 range and 80 total width, and a -60 radius area check upon the end of the missile.
The 125 radius check does not hit champion summoned units.(unexpected)
Because Wind Becomes Lightning uses an older type of 'healing based on life steal' and not applies life steal, Spirit Visage will amplify the life gain twice (+25% life steal and +25% healing), for a total of +56.25%.
Each of Wind Becomes Lightning's slashes are applied in a separate damage instance from each other.
This causes effects like Bone Plating to be applied twice and Black Cleaver's Carve to be applied multiple times.