Ap Xin zhao! Eat my Magic Spear

I went Ap xin zhao jungle in a 5 v 5 custom.

The Idea.
- Xin's w passive gives you every third hit an decent amount of hp back which scales off AP and the active buffs your attack speed.
- Xin's e scales off AP and is an aoe slow.
- Xin's q does scales of ad but its base dmg is still huge and does a knochback on the third hit. While activated every hit reduces
the cooldown of other skills by 1.
- Considering these 3 skills this build is wrapped around the hp gain from w increasing it's effect with ap and atkspeed.
- Early game u still are Xin "the Beast" zhao because of the Q base dmg.
- Late game u are nearly unkillable, can forever Tank turrets, duel even a jax and have some strong cc

The Build.
-u get machete and 5 pots
-as boots u decide mobility, mercs, cdrs, tabis, zerks dependent on what u prefer (i go boots 5 or mercs)
-upgrade machete to razor (for faster jungle clear)
-the core items in my build are malady and nashor's tooth (as u like ap for the increased heal and atkspeed for more 3rd hit heal procs)(and the cdr from maladay)

Now u have 2(3 u can sell razor late game) item slots left
Which Items are viable:

- Guinsoos Rageblade (Atkspeed, AD, AP and an below 50% gaining extra lifesteal, spellvamp and atkspeed passive)
- Rabadons tons of AP(Huge chunk of AP = Huge chunk of HP every third hit)
- Hextech Gunblade is ok but not the best (AP, AD, Spellvamp, Lifesteal - the slow active is more interesting to secure a 3rd hit for the knock up)
- Spirit Visage vs fed AP champ? (HP ok, Magic resist ok, CDR nice, Passive omfg i gain so much hp back its not even fair)
- Many other but these are relevant ...

Special tactics (what can u do with these troll build)

You can:
- shred enemy magic resist
- tank turrets for ever
- bait enemy and be at 100% hp in no time
- tank baron
- tank drake
- early game ganks like u would be a standard ad xin zhao
- Knoch up fast
- get cooldowns quicker
- and surprise enemy team

now this are my thoughts i wanted to share. You can try it, you can use it, you can (and should) give me feedback on this! ty


And sorry for the Wall of text.

I used it at some point in S2 but i wasn't very good at Xin in general so i stopped.

Then there was the famous "What would AP Xin Zhao do?" SiV HD video that was displayed during the S2 championship, but sadly, i still had to wait until today to see another AP Xin Zhao in a game where i played.

I'll try it again some day.

Been there, don' dat.
Malady plus those heals OP. Important fact: You heal with AA's at structures, so you can tank a tower on your own like NP. Rabadon into Malady into Lich Bane. 9/21 and only Mpen marks, rest is armor/mrplvl and MS, at least thats how I build it.

i'd skip the magic pen marks and swap them with AS for the sake to get 3rd attack hp gain faster
never went in with Lich Bane unless team lacks dmg