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Vampiric Shroud
Boots
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Shoes of the Magi
Ethereal Staff
Spear of the Magus
Gem of Isolation
Warlock's Staff
Chronos' Pendant
Bulwark of Hope
Stone of Gaia
Breastplate of Valor
Mystical Mail
Midgardian Mail
Mail of Renewal
Witchblade
Winged Blade
Pestilence
Spirit Robe
Hide of the Urchin
Greater Blink
Weakening Curse
Greater Purification
Shoes of the Magi
Void Stone
Ethereal Staff
Mail of Renewal
Spear of the Magus
Spirit Robe
Shoes of the Magi
Mystical Mail
Ethereal Staff
Spirit Robe
Mail of Renewal
Spear of the Magus
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Xing Tian in solo. At this moment Xing Tian has a lot of CC, and great potential to turn fights. He also has decent damage, and good stats. If you like my guide please make sure to check out my 
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ADVANTAGES
Tanky Stats
Decent damage Tons of CC One of the best ultimate's in the game |
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DRAWBACKS
Long Cooldowns
Slow movement speed Small radius for abilities Slow Abilities Has a Helmet |
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Furious Roar
My thoughts
Hook Slam
My thoughts
Sky-cutting Axe
My thoughts
Whirlwind of Rage and Steel
My thoughts
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Pretty standard starter item. Offers you sustain, and most importantly Health. The Health helps you tons with surviving in lane, then you have the passive on top. |
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There can be tons of Variations to how you start, from defence to power. I personally prefer to go for rank 1 warlock's sash but you have to be extremely careful in lane. For the purpose of the god being new, I recommend getting boots and plenty of potions. Gets you through the laning phase, and primes you for the mid game. |
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These are pretty simple, pick up 4 Healing Potions and 2 Mana Potions and you should be set for lane. You just need to focus on surviving in lane, and that's why you get plenty of potions. You can alternately go for an active and 2 Health potions, but that's up to preference.
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Cheap? Check. Movement Speed? Check. PENETRATION? Kreygasm. It's literally got everything you want and need, PICK IT UP. |
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Xing Tian has good Health scaling, and to complement that as well as make him tankier and more powerful I pick Ethereal Staff, as the stats it gives are valueable and just well, good. This can be replaced with warlock's sash if you are not afraid you won't get stacks or get punished.
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Since we are looking to be more supportive than a carry, this item can help both you and your team. With DoTs and 2 part combos Xing is perfect for this item, if you need it anyway. |
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Since all of Xing's abilities deal damage of a sort, this item is pretty decent. It works best on Furious Roar due to the DoT damage, but also works well with sky-cutting axe. If you're looking for some soft cc to peel for adcs or such, this can work well.
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If you can afford to stack over buying Ethereal Staff then you can. It's a good item, it's just hard to stack due to having weak clear. It also makes you easy to punish, ontop of the fact you aren't getting the ethereal passive. It's all down to preference, and mines ethereal.
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If you're looking for an alternative for Breastplate of Valor this is your item. Offers a good amount of power, as well as lots of CDR which is very useful. Picking up this item really depends on if you want to be tankier or more powerful. I personally prefer the defence, but if the enemy team is squishy you can go for this item.
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Just a good magical defence item that offers HP5, MP5, and a brilliant passive. A good item in general, but a majority of the time there's better options such as magi's blessing or Spirit Robe. If you're against a magic heavy team though, this might be the item for you.
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This is a good magical item when you're a BURST heavy team. Otherwise this item is not really picked up. What do I mean when I say burst heavy? A team that has a large amount of gods that can burst you at once. Heres a example team:  He Bo,  Ao Kuang,  Medusa,  Ymir and  Tyr. All gods that deal tons of damage in a short time. That's when you should think about picking it up. Just take into mind it only offers magical defence though, so picking it against majority physicals isn't really the best idea.
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Breastplate is really cheap, offers a lot of CDR and lots of Physical Protection. It's a good item on Xing Tian due to his high cooldown reduction, a good item to always consider
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One of the best items for the laning phase. Helps you clear (Which is really helpful) and poke. If you're against a physical in lane pick this up at rank 2 over the normal start, unless you'd prefer the sustain. Outside of that I wouldn't pick this item up at all, as it shines it's brightest inn the early game and falls of in the late. |
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This is just a good physical defence item. It should only really picked up when the enemy team relies mostly on Auto Attacks, other then that it really shouldn't be considered. But with the rise of Ao Kuang again, and with  Ullr becoming more popular in solo this might be a item you will see more of.
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An item that just recently got buffed and is starting to see the light of day, Mail of Renewal. It has pretty good base stats, and a passive which can make a considerable impact. One thing you should take into account when getting this item in solo, it will generally be best at 3-5th item as you will start to rotate. It's honestly something you should always consider at this moment, though it is still not entirely useful if you are behind.
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This is such a strong item. It offers everything you want from strong defence, good cdr and a brilliant passive. |
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This is a item you don't see much of due to the fact it takes long to build and takes long to stack. If you're against a good team there probably won't be a lot of kills, so it's not really great. I'd always pick Spirit Robe over this unless I'm looking to be really tanky. But if you need to be really tanky, go for it.
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Similar to Midgardian Mail this is a item you'll be picking up in the face of Auto Attack heavy teams. The only difference between this and midgardian being the fact this slows auto attacks in a aura, and not slow the enemy when they hit you. This is a way better option for that reason, and a majority of the time should be picked up over midgardian.
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A strong item when faced against slows, but otherwise it's stats are not extremely useful for Xing Tian.
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Anti heal in a aura, what else is there to say? If the team has healing this is a decent item, specially if you have spent your extra active slot on blink. Good solid item. |
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The best active in the game. While you are still building like a bruiser Beads is always useful, no matter what. I always pick this up just due to it's versatility, and you should too. |
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One of the best actives in the game. 100% anti heal. 100%. Its a crazy good active against any healers, and any team. As this applies to lifesteal too. Always should be considered. |
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Blink has quickly been noticed to be one of the best actives in the game, and it's no suprise. The ability to be in the middle of the enemy without any indication is really strong. This is an item I always look to pick up so you can initiate and get a big ultimate off, even if you pop beads it leaves the enemy open for your support to initiate and possibly get a really good fight. |
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First of all level your 3 to rank 1. You always get your 3 first as it deals the most damage, and it's your dash. In the start of the game you should be starting with the jungler at the Speed buff. After clearing speed you should get your blue and then head to lane. You need to be clearing with Furious Roar, Hook Slam, and Sky-Cutting Axe, as well as poking the enemy at the same time if possible. Eventually you won't need to spend your Sky-Cutting Axe to clear, and will only need your 1 2 combo. If you manage to get anyone low enough, your ultimate does base 200 damage if you get all the spins. Ontop of that you've got the rest of your combo, so you should be able to kill anyone with 350 health and lower. Even more so if you can throw them into the tower. |
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At this point of the game you'll be looking to start to rotate out a bit more. Your objective still stays the same, look to farm and look for opportunities to get kills or rotate. Remember, since you are playing Xing Tian you have a really strong intiation. You should be looking to initiate fights for the team with Greater Blink or Sky-Cutting Axe, with Whirlwind of Rage and Steel to follow up. While you don't necessarily need to be the first to initiate it means if the enemy use actives to escape, your next initiation should go along much more smoothly. Also, don't ever keep your ultimate for the "perfect" moment, as 9 times out of 10 that moment will never occur. An ultimate that hits 2 people is enough to win a fight, so don't feel you have to get some crazy 4 man ultimate.You also need to keep looking for objectives such as Towers. This is the point of the game where you should be getting at least tier one towers, and team fights. |
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This part of the game is going to be a lot about objectives such as Gold Fury and Fire Giant, as well towers. At this point of the game Peeling becomes a important factor. If you don't know what Peeling means to put it in short you can say it means Delaying. Using your crowd control to stop a enemy from attacking others. So using Hook Slam to stop someone hitting an adc, etc. Peeling is very important so you can let the damage dealers deal their damage. You have to keep them alive, and if you don't then your fight is MUCH weaker. They are the ones who will carry this game, and you need them.When it comes to doing the Fire Giant you need to keep the enemies out. You have a lot of peel and you should use that. Don't be afraid to use your ultimate just to throw the enemy away, as the fire giant is more important than a single ability. When it comes to attacking the enemy team when they're doing the Fire Giant try and keep the damage dealers ccd. Use Hook Slam to keep them in a position, and Whirlwind of Rage and Steel to throw them into your team, or into a Fire Giant ability.
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Ares
Small Error: Skycutting Axe has 6 talent points in it.
Furious Roar has 4
Haven't seen you around the site as much of late, but I remember you commenting a lot on some of my earlier guides with useful stuff ^^
Your guide looks really good! Not a lot of criticism to say, but here are some points I think are worth mentioning:
CDR:
Physical vs Magical Defense: These two types of defense weren't created equally. It's relatively well known that physical defense is more desirable for a variety of reasons (tower/phoenix/objective damage, the lack of magical penetration items compared to physical, etc). Yet both of your example builds contain equal quantities of both magical and physical defense. While
Regardless, this is still the best
Hey, yeah I haven't really been on here much due to focusing on school/justus. Glad to see you became a editor, you worked for it man.
Now to your points:
I do agree with your points, but something you have to take with a pinch of salt is the example builds. I generally build to counter the enemy, be it through magic reduction or such. So I aimed the builds at being more examples of against healers you need pestilence, or void stone when you have freya etc. I've noticed that a lot of people will just straight up copy the example builds, so as you suggest I'm going to revise the example builds and make them much more generalised, as well as include more phys/cdr. I'll also be looking more at
And as always thanks for the feedback :D
Your guide looks really good! Not a lot of criticism to say, but here are some points I think are worth mentioning:
CDR:
Physical vs Magical Defense: These two types of defense weren't created equally. It's relatively well known that physical defense is more desirable for a variety of reasons (tower/phoenix/objective damage, the lack of magical penetration items compared to physical, etc). Yet both of your example builds contain equal quantities of both magical and physical defense. While
Regardless, this is still the best