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I prefer not to buy a starter in the early game and you will see why later, however you could possibly buy either potions of your choice or buy Warrior's Axe however you will not be able to finish the build how I usually do. If you go with the axe, you should upgrade it into Hero's Axe if the enemy uses heavy CC and in every other case go to Sundering Axe.
Magic Shoes
Multi Potion
You are a guardian who wants some defense early game due to your already good offense, so you should build some early defense. could be swapped for shoes of focus for early CDR and damage.
Reinforced Shoes
Gauntlet is always solid for guardians due to its easy to stack defense that gives a huge advantage. Not very interchangeable.
Reinforced Shoes
Gauntlet of Thebes
You get attack, make the enemy weaker, AND get defense? Yes please. You can change the order of this item and the next one If the physical opponents are more dangerous.
Reinforced Shoes
Gauntlet of Thebes
Void Stone
Your abilities have long cooldowns, so you buy this to make then]m shorter. Having two leaps on such a short cooldown can really help chase or set up your ult. You can buy this before void stone if you need physical protections more than magical protections.
Reinforced Shoes
Gauntlet of Thebes
Void Stone
Breastplate of Valor
This item is a great utility item that allows you to use blink more frequently to chase and set up your ult kills when the enemy team camp objectives like it's their ventilator. Still, this item can be replaced by any item on the list called "items to consider".
Reinforced Shoes
Gauntlet of Thebes
Void Stone
Breastplate of Valor
Relic Dagger
You may have noticed by now that you didn't have a starter item, and this is why. As soon as you hit level 17 and have complete the build up to this point, buy animosity immediately instead of getting benevolence and then buying animosity later. Benevolence is kinda bad on Xing, but animosity has a great ability for him, and this is why you skip the first form. Xing Tian burns his abilities fast, and sometimes has to rely on basic attacks. If you went the Warrior's Axe route, you won't have this slot so this doesn't apply to you.
Reinforced Shoes
Gauntlet of Thebes
Void Stone
Breastplate of Valor
Relic Dagger
Heroism
You pick pridwen for defense, however if you want to get that BIG damage you can opt for Gem of Isolation / Staff of Myrddin to chase or Rod of Tahuti / Rangda's Mask for straight up offense.
Pridwen
Gem of Isolation
Staff of Myrddin
Rod of Tahuti
Rangda's Mask
I am going to shorten this since I don't want to make this section impossible to read by going into too much detail, with 1 standing for void replacement, 2 standing for breastplate replacement, and three being dagger replacement.
Anti-heal- contagion (2,3) and pestilence (1,3)
Attack- Doom Orb (3) and Chronos Pendant (3)
Defense- Hide of the urchin (3) and Stone of Binding (3) and Oni Hunter's Garb (1,3) and Midgardian Mail (2,3) and Spectral Armor (2,3)
Health- Stone of Gaia (3) and Mail of Renewal (3) and Ethereal Staff (3) and Sovereignty (3)
CCR- Spirit Robe (3) and Mantle of Discord (3) and Mystical Mail (3)
Utility- Witchblade (3) and Winged Blade (3) and Emperor's Armor (3)
Contagion
Pestilence
Doom Orb
Chronos' Pendant
Hide of the Urchin
Stone of Binding
Oni Hunter's Garb
Midgardian Mail
Spectral Armor
Stone of Gaia
Mail of Renewal
Ethereal Staff
Sovereignty
Spirit Robe
Mantle of Discord
Mystical Mail
Witchblade
Emperor's Armor
Always buy Blink Rune 2nd, and choose between Aegis or Meditation Cloak first. Upgrade Blink Rune when possible.
Cloak of Meditation
Aegis Amulet
Blink Rune
Y
B
A
X
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You've decided to play Xing Tian, the Smite god whose moveset makes him play like a bootleg smash character. Don't be fooled by his guardian status, as he can dish out some major damage later in the game. At the start, play as an aggressive meat shield and try to pole with your one. You have practically no mana, so use abilities sparingly. Speaking of his one, it has incredible tick damage with percentage tick damage, which surprisingly gets a lot of kills. Try to hit multiple people with it in one use and due to it's long range also try to disrupt recalls/ catch the enemy off guard. Your two is not for the damage, but rather for the double CC. First you knock up, then you root. Look out for if the enemies buy beads, and burn them with this ability so they can't evade your ult. Next is your three, which is a leap that has good range and applies defense. In joust, you can use this to juke by going straight through mana/speed/middle xp camp and then using your second jump to juke if the enemy follows. Oh, did I not mention that after the first leap, you get a second leap that you can use for three seconds afterwards that has no mana use? Well you do, and it means that you can juke easily or can cover double the distance. The damage is decent. The reason you're probably playing him is for his four, the washing machine ult. Any enemies within the circle gets stuck in a spin that does extreme damage and throws them in the direction you're facing. This sets up so many team dives and can change a fight so quickly that I would say it's one of the best teamfight ults in the game (Not the best though). Back to mid game now that you know how he works, you will want to chase enemies away from your team when they are retreating and try to finish stragglers off. Go for the weakest link when big fights are happening if your team is fairing well, and if they are losing stay by their side and annoy enemies. In late game, you should be able to straight up murder people and will prioritize killing when your team is gone or setting up kills when they are around.
This is just going to be combos so don't expect chit-chat.
Standard combo- 2,1
Catching up-3,2,1
full kit combo- 3,4,2,1
Big chase-3,3(2nd proc),1,2
Myrddin chase- 3,3(2nd proc),4(try to hit them and if you do then stop this combo and yeet them backwards into the standard),3,3(2nd proc),1,2
Myrddin big damage- 4,1,1,2,3(hit them for damage with both procs)
I feel like here is appropriate to tell you about your passive. Basically, when you do ability damage, you gain a stack of HP5 that can stack up to twelve times and lasts for 18 seconds. It's a pretty fair passive for an upfront guardian, and I recommend always keeping it full by burning abilities on minions when the enemy team is dead or it's running low and nobody is near. Now, let me explain why you buy Blink Rune. When most people see Xing, their first instinct is to camp in towers and poke when he reaches level five. It's really annoying, but that's just how it is. When you see somebody doing this, wait until they think they are safe and then blink into immediately using your ult. Now, start moving towards your tower/ your team and face in that direction. If it doesn't kill them, use your combo or chase them down a side path until somebody kills them. When already chasing with both blink and your for ready, do the exact same thing when you think the time is right. If you don't catch up for any reason, then follow up with your three instead of your ult and then if you still cant hit them with the washing machine then slap them with your one. An easy way to build gauntlet stacks while refreshing your passive stacks is to one the entire lane and then not hit them. Just forget that that lane exists. When your team or the tower eventually kills them, you just kept your HP5 and got 6(+) protections. Rinse and repeat about eight or nine times and you have your gauntlet upgraded in no time. Finally, wash your hands for about thirty seconds on both sides with soap and warm to hot water. This last tip doesn't necessarily have to do with the game, but it is a tip nevertheless and it is important to have good hygiene.
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No prob.
- Firstly, you're 100% missing a starter item. The starters at this point are all very strong, and are 100% recommended for Conquest. Even in the other modes, they can still be very good items, especially for the tanks.
War Flag or 
Sentinel's Gift should be picked up in almost every match IMO.
- You should identify which mode this build is for. Maybe it's for all modes, which is fine, but right now can't tell if it's supposed to be for Conquest or others. If Conquest, I also can't tell if you're going Solo or Support. He's fine for both, but your build is very, very confusing. It mostly looks supporty (
Gauntlet of Thebes built early makes it pretty obvious that it should be for Support), but getting the Rod in there, or Rangda's, or Animosity, or Doom Orb, or other items like that...makes it feel very ADD.
- In terms of build order, for a teamfight mode (which is what I'm going to assume from this point forward), I'm fine with Reinforced (Focus alt optional), going into Thebes, going into Void. That said, if I'm facing 3 phys / 2 mag,
Void Stone isn't what I'd probably get 3rd. I'd consider rushing 
Pridwen (not 
Breastplate of Valor), because you have enough prots from Reinforced and Thebes that Prid should work well, and it's going to be much more synergistic CDR item than BoV...perfect as a setup for his ult, giving him tankiness after he's gathered and thrown enemies.
- I also think
Relic Dagger is a great option on him, esp in teamfight modes. I feel that you could even rush it sooner if you feel like it. BUT...
Blink Rune should be your 1st relic in that situation where you rush Relic Dagger.
- Speaking of relics, I'd only suggest Meditation Cloak in Assault...but for Xing, perhaps not even then. If you get a starter (either WF or SG) in Assault, that should give you nice sustain, so that you could go Blink 1st and either burn a lot of beads or get some really nice early kill setup. For any other mode, I would never consider Med. It's a beginner crutch relic and not very good overall.
Aegis Amulet is also not a great item for a tanky god. You can absorb more damage than squishy gods, and so you don't need the invulnerability. As a tank, you should be getting team utility. 
Magic Shell, 
Heavenly Wings, or other AOE relics have WAY more priority.
- Some items here are just really weird and don't fit well.
Rangda's Mask, for example, is just not a good item here. Maybe if you were going for a bursty build, it might give you even more damage potential, but you don't have enough pen to make that base damage count much.
Hide of the Urchin isn't a very strong tank item at this point. 
Doom Orb is not an item he should pick up. Same with 
Chronos' Pendant unless you're going a troll Xing Mage build, in which case maybe Doom Orb, Chronos, Myrddin, and some other offensive items might all fit together (though of course you'll be squishy).
- The writeups you have, especially the longer paragraphs, should be split up. Right now they're just not nice to read. New subject, start a new paragraph. If you're in Jr. High and you got graded, you'd get marked down for that big block.
All in all, you have mostly solid item choices for him, but the item order, some of the optional items, lack of starter...these are all things I feel make this build list weaker.You DO mention in your starters that you prefer NOT to go for a starter, so I recognize that. I also note that in your "Offense but offense" you give the reasoning here. That said, I don't support the idea that Animosity is a good item for him at all. He's got no basic attack function in his kit. And while, sure, you can basic attack in between abilities or when abilities are down, he's not one of those gods that really needs to be attack canceling. Just not a good item for him. Again, WF or SG are great starters, and have functional upgrades that I feel are WAAAAY better than Animosity.
In the end, I'm going to guess this is for Arena or other non-Conquest teamfight modes. Am I correct here?
Since you're playing joust I do think animosity is a terrible pick to make. The axe alternatives are fine, however as you will be fulfilling the tank role I do think
after that, while boots is fine I would actually not recommend rushing
while void could be gotten I don't think you will need BoV it is super selfish and there are a lot of better items that can give you the CDR.
While a bruiser work could work you will find yourself losing games if the opponent has a warrior or assassin as they can often clean your backline before you can do the same to theirs. Especially since this build is meandering between them.
for a bruiser build I would suggest something along the lines of:
for a tank build:
And while I feel pretty confident in the things that I stated/suggested, it doesn't mean you have to change to what I say. Others may disagree, you may have found something in particular that you really like.