Hello everyone that want to know how to play with my loved XIN =D


Okay to start let's see his stats and skills

His stats are

Attack Animation: 0.4 / 0.3
Damage: 52-56
Casting Animation: 0 / 0.51
Armor: 3.08
Base Attack Time: 1.7
Move-speed: 310
Missile Speed: N/A
Attack Range: 128 (melee)
Sight Range: 1800 / 800

Xin's Starting and Strength Growth
21 + 2
Xin's Starting and Agility Growth
22 + 1.8
Xin's Starting and Intelligence Growth
20 + 1.8

Pros

• Good Stats Growth ( Xin doesn't attack much, he is like a different kind of nuker[ nukers are those heroes that kill more with spells], so he need more strength to get life, a good intelligence so he can cast all his spells and agility is more used late-game, that he needs to attack more)

• Good Starting move-speed (310)

• Kind of a good damage

• Good starting armor

• Really good to play with him :3

• Kind of good initial stats

Cons

• Can die easily early-game

• Need a good intelligence regeneration

• Not so good against strength heroes ( as all nukers)

• Second Lowest agility among agility heroes

• As he is a panda, he is endangered ;D

And his skills are:

Searing Chains


Xin unleashes up to 3 fiery bolas that wrap around nearby enemies, anchoring them in place and dealing damage each second.

Effects
Ensnares 3 random enemy units, 40/60/80/100 DPS

Notes

• Damage type: magical
• Targets are chosen randomly around Xin.
• Does not affect magic immune or invisible units.
• Interrupts channeling spells.

Level 1
Mana Cost 110
Cooldown 14
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 2
Total Damage 80 Damage

Level 2
Mana Cost 110
Cooldown 12
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 2
Total Damage 120 Damage

Level 3
Mana Cost 110
Cooldown 10
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 3
Total Damage 240 Damage

Level 4
Mana Cost 110
Cooldown 8
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 3
Total Damage 300 Damage

Sleight of Fist


Xin dashes around with blazing speed, attacking all enemies in the targeted AoE and returns to where he was standing after. Deals bonus damage to heroes, and 50% less damage to creeps.

Effects
Attack all enemy units in the AoE, 30/60/80/120 bonus damage to heroes

Notes

• Damage type: physical
• Targets are determined when the spell is cast.
• A regular attack is done to each target every 0.2 seconds.
• Any attack modifier that Xin has (Critical Strike, Bash, Cleave, Orb effects) will be applied normally to each target.

Level 1
Mana Cost 50
Cooldown 30
Casting range 700
Area of Effect 250
Duration N/A
Total Damage Your attack (plus 30 Damage to Heroes)

Level 2
Mana Cost 50
Cooldown 22
Casting range 700
Area of Effect 350
Duration N/A
Total Damage Your attack (plus 60 Damage to Heroes)

Level 3
Mana Cost 50
Cooldown 14
Casting range 700
Area of Effect 450
Duration N/A
Total Damage Your attack (plus 90 Damage to Heroes)

Level 4
Mana Cost 50
Cooldown 6
Casting range 700
Area of Effect 550
Duration N/A
Total Damage Your attack (plus 120 Damage to Heroes)

Flame Guard


Xin surrounds himself with a ring of fire that consumes incoming magic damage, leaving him unharmed. Deals dps in a 400 aoe. If the shield is dispelled, the dps buff goes away.

Effects
150/300/450/600 health barrier, 30/35/40/45 DPS

Notes

• Damage type: magical
• Magic damage reduction is calculated before any reductions.

Level 1
Mana Cost 80
Cooldown 35
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 8
Barrier Health 150 hp
Total Damage 240 Damage

Level 2
Mana Cost 90
Cooldown 35
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 12
Barrier Health 300 hp
Total Damage 300 Damage

Level 3
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 35
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 16
Barrier Health 450 hp
Total Damage 640 Damage

Level 4
Mana Cost 110
Cooldown 35
Casting range N/A
Area of Effect 400
Duration 20
Barrier Health 600 hp
Total Damage 900 Damage

Fire Remnant


Xin charges himself with the energy to create a Fire Remnant every 30 seconds, with a max of 3 charges. Releasing a charge sends a Fire Remnant that runs to the targeted point at 2.5X your speed. Xin can use his secondary ability to dash out to each remnant's location, detonating them for AoE damage, and arriving at the one he targeted last.

Effects
Places a remnant, consuming a charge

Notes

• Starts with 3 charges (the maximum), and replenishes a charge every 30 seconds.
• Fire Remnants move to where you targeted them at 2.5X your speed.

Level 1
Mana Cost 0
Cooldown 0
Casting range 1500
Area of Effect N/A
Duration 45

Level 1
Mana Cost 0
Cooldown 0
Casting range 1500
Area of Effect N/A
Duration 45

Level 1
Mana Cost 0
Cooldown 0
Casting range 1500
Area of Effect N/A
Duration 45

Fire Remnant Sub-Ability


Target the Fire Remnant to arrive at. You dash through all other Fire Remnants, and end up at the one you targeted, exploding them for AoE damage.

Effects
140/180/220 Damage

Notes

• Damage type: magical
• You move to each Fire Remnant at 1300 movement speed, or in 0.4 seconds, whichever is faster.

Level 1
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting range Global
Area of Effect 450
Duration N/A
Total Damage 140 (Per Charge)

Level 2
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting range Global
Area of Effect 450
Duration N/A
Total Damage 180 (Per Charge)

Level 3
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting range Global
Area of Effect 450
Duration N/A
Total Damage 220 (Per Charge)

Skills reviews:

Searing Chain: 300 damage and 3 seconds for your attacks and cooldowns as all his skills have a low cooldown.

Sleight of Fist: good bonus damage to 1 hit, good area, good cooldown, can be used to dodge projectiles like ranged attacks and spells like Gyrocopter's Homing Missile and the best: can get running enemies.

Flame Guard: Block 600 magic damage, taking some care of his problems against nukers, and does damage, combined with his good move-speed, he can do a good damage

Fire Remnant: His signature skill, Fire Remnant can do a lot of damage, can catch enemies as they flee, can get you out of the battle if you need, can dodge projectiles like Sleight of Fist and is one of the best skills in team fights as it deal area damage.

Skill Build:

1: Sleight of Fist
2: Searing Chains
3: Sleight of Fist
4: Searing Chains
5: Sleight of Fist
6: Fire Remnant
7: Sleight of Fist
8: Searing Chains
9: Searing Chains
10: Flame Guard
11: Fire Remnant
12: Flame Guard
13: Flame Guard
14: Flame Guard
15: Attribute Bonus
16: Fire Remnant
17 - 25: Bonus Attribute

Justification: Sleight of Fist is mastered as soon as possible with Fire Remnant, Searing Chains second and Flame guard at the end. Why? Sleight of Fist will be your way to catch fleeing enemies at the start, as you give a hit with bonus damage, Searing Chains will make those freaking range heroes to be afraid of you, as you can stop their run and kill them, as normally they do not have much life, combined with Fire Remnant, your Searing Chains will be a Death Combo, as you appear, chain them, let them with low life or even kill them, and finish with Sleight of Fist, And the best part, you can repeat this process sometimes in the same fight, as you do have low cooldowns. Why Flame Guard at the end only? Because it won't help you much at the start, but you can put 2 or 3 levels if the enemy team has a nuker or/and someone with high damage spells and you don't have enough life/ don't have Hood of Defiance / Khadgar's Pipe of Insight.

Play Style: Xin is a ganker [Gankers are those heroes that apear already killing the enemy doesn't giving him time to think] and a different nuker, a very good combination, when he is in a good level, he can run across the river, looking for someone he can gank,remember to use flame guard BEFORE entering the fight, so that it can block 600 magic damage, sometimes saving your life, he start a fight with Fire Remnant, causing already some damage, then he uses Sleight of Fist, the enemy sometimes will try to run, you use Searing Chain, Flame Guard doing damage, if he still manage to run with low life and you can't catch him, finish him with Sleight of Fist. (BUT REMEMBER, if you are going to gank someone with much life, most likely strength heroes, you can be in some trouble, as they can manage to escape more often and even kill you, as they can survive your spells and attacks, they get the time to think and manage a way to kill you.

Items

Some Items good for Xin:

Boots Choice: or or or

Let me explain, Arcane Boots are good to help you with your mana problems early-game, and after you can disassemble it to make a bloodstone and another boots, my choice would be the travel boots, i will explain later.


Well, not much to say, this boots give you a lot of move-speed, low price, hp regeneration and armor, and rejuvenate, which can make you kill more in some cases, like: you and your enemy have low health, you use Fire Remnant to go to a safe place, use rejuvenate, get back some health, and go kill him, giving him no chance to escape. one of the best boots, but be careful, with some attacks the tranquil boots convert into normal boots for some time.

Phase boots are very good boots to Xin, because of its phase ability, you can chase your enemy to their death, you can escape to save your life, or you can just run away being happy as it doesn't cost any mana and has a low cooldown ;D.


... Nothing To Say.
The Best boots you can have, best move-speed AND Teleport, you can chase down enemies, you can save your life, you can help a partner that is in need at the other side of the map, you can go to the fountain if you need.

Orb Effect Choice:

first let me explain something to you my dear Xin lovers (or haters, if you got here to see his weakness ;D) Xin doesn't need much an orb effect, it is more optional, situational and late-game'onal ;D.

or or and even

[IMGhttp://www.playdota.com/items/stygian-desolator[/IMG] Stygian Desolator in my opnion is the best orb effect, because it gives you 60 damage, which increase your damage with Sleight of Fist, and Corruption, which decreases the enemy's armor by 6, (which still works with Sleight of hand) giving your spells and attacks more damage into the enemy.

Diffusal Blade is a weapon to be feared in the right hands, with its feedback, you burn enemy's mana, dealing damage to him with the burned mana, gives you agility, which is your main attribute so it increases your damage, attack-speed and even your armor, and the Diffusal Blade still gives you intelligence, granting you more mana to use your skills ( that costs a lot of mana ).

Mask Of Madness gives you life steal, which you won't use much, but what you WILL use here is its ability, beserk, which gives you more 100 attack-speed and more 20% movement speed but you will take more 30% damage, giving you more attacks, and giving you what you love, move-speed, so you can chase your enemies and run to save your life.


not much to say about Satanic, gives you strength, armor and damage, making you live longer and hit harder, and a 25% life-steal, that may keep you alive, and you can even activate it to give you 175% life-steal for 3.5 seconds, that you can use with your Sleight of Fist, with your bonus damage, you will recover MUCH life in low time, but it is very expensive, only buy if you don't have nothing better to buy and have farmed a lot.

Now just some good items for Xin:

Itens that gives you more move-speed such as:



Eul's Scepter of Divinity is one of the best items to Xin, because it gives you intelligence and MUCH mana regeneration, that you need, it still gives you 25 move-speed, that everyone loves, and it gives you cyclone ability, that you can use to stop enemies fleeing, so that you can kill them, you can give time to your allies to get in position, and the best, 2.5 seconds to your cooldowns, as Xin has low cooldowns it's very good for him.


Very good, 9 to all stats, 9 damage, 5% move-speed ans attack-speed, that can seem to be low, but with a boots and your already high move-speed, can be some, and its active Endurance, more 10% move-speed and attack-speed for you, to run to chase to whatever you want, you may even refresh your charges buying the recipe again.


Yasha's stats are goood for you, 16 agility and 15 attack-speed, that means 31 attack-speed, and even more 10% move-speed.

You doesn't really need it, but if you can farm it and doesn't have nothing better to do, do Sange and Yasha, it gives you 16 Agility, 16 Strength, 12 damage, 15 attack speed, Greater Maim, which slows the enemies move-speed and attack-speed by 30% for 5 seconds, and still gives 12% movement speed. Gives you strength, agility, maim and move-speed.

Some items that can help you kill your enemy:




Veil of Discord is very good as it gives 5 armor, 5 HP regeneration, 12 Intelligence, making you live longer and more mana for your spells, and Discord ability, that amplifies magic damage by 25%, you will give a lot more damage.

Ethereal Blade is like WOW, can save you as you cannot be attacked ( BUT BE CAREFUL, as you take 40% more magic damage) and can even help you catch and kill your enemy, as it slows your enemy's move-speed by 60% while he is in the ethereal form, and gives him 75 + 2 times your agility in damage ( and well, you will have lots of agility by the time you get a ethereal blade). One of the best items for Xin.

Well, Force Staff gives you 10 intelligence, 10 damage, 10 attack-speed, and even Force Ability, helping you to catch your enemy, or running from them.

Orchid Malevolence... nothing much to say, 20 intelligence, 30 attack-speed, 45 damage, 225% mana regeneration ( like WOW ) and the best, SOUL BURN ability, which silences AND improves the damage to target unit by 25%, taking care of those nukers, as they get silenced, and even helping you to give more damage. LOVE IT.

Shiva's Guard, another LOVE IT item for Xin, as it gives 30 intelligence, 15 armor ( which makes you live longer ), freezing aura, that slow enemy's attack-speed by 25%, and Artic Blast ability, which gives 200 magic damage to enemies, and slow their move-speed by 40% for 4 seconds, making your way to catch them or run, the same as always. =D

Oh we got to the famous, the glorious, The Butterfly, it gives you 30 agility, 30 damage, 30 attack-speed, and 30% evasion, which will help you live, as you will dodge some enemy attacks. Another of the LOVE IT series items.


So we got to the radiance, gives you 60 damage, and the Burn Damage, which is an ability that causes 40 magic damage in a 650 AoE. Help you kill the enemy, and even can kill the enemy if he try to run, as it has a big AoE.

The Blade Mail, one of the best items too, as it gives you 22 damage, 5 armor, 10 intelligence, and the Damage Return ability, which will make your enemy suffer the damage he deals to you. TOTALLY AWESOME.

Well we got to the other items good for Xin:








Much nukers? Try to rush Hood of Defiance , as it guves you 8 hp regeneration and 30% spell resistance. Nothing to say, you will survive a lot against nuker with this.( REMEMBER, your ability Flame Guard gives you a barrier that blocks 600 magic damage )

Well if the Hood of Defiance still is not enough, so rush Khadgar's Pipe of Insight too, it gives you 11 hp regeneration, 30% magic resistance, and Barrier ability, which makes a barrier (duh) that blocks 400 spell damage making you live. ( REMEMBER AGAIN, Your Flame Guard makes a barrier that blocks 600 magic damage, combined with Khadgar's Pipe of Insight barrier that blocks 400 magic damage, you can block 1000 magic damage without losing life, taking care of those damn nukers ;D ).

The magnificent Cranium Basher is an item to be feared in the right hands, as it gives you 25% chance to bash your enemy for 1.4 seconds, this item is very good to you late-game, as you will depend more of your attacks, and as you're an agility hero, you will attack a lot, it still gives you 40 damage and 6 strength, which is not much but still can help. ( Particularly the Cranium Basher is very good against the LEGION COMMANDER, as he forces you to attack him, it's good to have some attack, and some effects to surprise him ;D ) [ Note, this chance also applies to your attack with Sleight of Hand ].

Well the Abyssal Blade is a stronger Cranium basher, gives the normal bash, but 100 damage, very good increase to your damage, 10 strength, some more life, and the Overwhelm ability, which will stun an opponent for 2 seconds, a good time to attack your opponents, and to refresh your cooldowns. Only do this later in the game, as the cranium basher will fit your needs in the start. ( Note, this chance also applies to your attack with Sleight of Hand ).

Black King Bar ( More known as BKB ) [ and i do not know why black king bar, it's white '-'] can be a substitute to Hood of Defiance and Khadgar's Pipe of Insight, as you get 10 strength, giving you some life, 24 damage, to your attacks obviously, and the best, Avatar ability, which will makes you magic immune, against a nuker, the 5 seconds it gives will be good enough to kill them ( after the charges, it gives you 10 seconds, after 9,8,7,6, and gives you 5 second for the rest of the game every time you use it ).

Nothing much to say about Crystalys, 35 damage and 20% chance to do a Critical Strike, 1.75 times your attack, not much but it's good against every strength hero, and you can do a Buriza with it later ;D. ( Again vary good against LEGION COMMANDER, as you can only attack, it's good to do some critical damage ) [ Note, this chance also applies to your attack with Sleight of Hand ].

Buriza-Do-Kyanon, upgrade to your Crystalyz, it gives 81 damage, and a better Critical Strike, 25% chance to do 2.5 times your attack. ( Note, this chance also applies to your attack with Sleight of Hand ).

Assault Cuirass is one of the best items in the game, as it makes you live longer and hit faster. It gives you 10 armor, 5 armor aura, 35 attack-speed, 20 attack-speed aura, and a -5 armor aura that affects only your enemies. Good against much things.

Ring of Basilius is an item that you rush in the start, as it gives you 6 damage, 1 armor, a 0.65 mana regeneration aura and a 2 armor aura, you live longer and can use spells faster, everything that you need in the start.

Lothar's Edge is more one of the LOVE IT series, 38 damage, 10 attack-speed and the best, Wind Walk ( some call it WW ), Wind Walk makes you invisible for 9 seconds, with a 18 seconds cooldown, so you can use it constantly if you need, when you are invisible, you have a 20% bonus move-speed, ( the same as always, can chase or run ). You get the surprise attack when you are going to gank someone, doing already some more damage in your first hit.

Guinsoo's Scythe of Vise, more one of the LOVE IT series, 35 intelligence, 10 strength, 10 agility, 150% mana regeneration and Hex ability, which turn your enemy into a sheep, lasts 3.5 seconds, the enemy affected can't attack and have it's damage block, evasion and reduces his move-speed to 100, giving you some free hits, some time to refresh cooldowns. It's a very good item.

Linken's Sphere can take some care of every enemy hero that tries to do anything with magic to you as it can block one targeted spells every 20 seconds, and still gives 15 to all stats, 6 hp regeneration, and 150% mana regeneration.

Ghost Scepter gives 7 to all stats, and you can activate it's Ghost Form ability, saving you from some physical heroes as they can't attack you, but BE CAREFUL as you receives 40% more damage from spells.

the Bloodstone is a very good item, gives you 500 hp, 400 mana, 8 hp regeneration, 200% mana regeneration and bloodpact, you revive faster, have more mana regeneration, and when you die, you lose less gold, you gain vision of the area you died and gain experience as if you were in that area, everything based in charges, and how you gain charges? Killing enemies, what you do as a ganker ;D.

Heart of Tarrasque solve your life problems, as it gives you 40 strength, which means much life already, it still gives you 300 hp and regenerate 2% of your total hit points ( This regeneration is disabled if you get damaged in the past 4 seconds ) [ this gives you some advantage, as you can start the fight, leave the fight with Fire Remnant, recover some hp, and then go to the fight again, with more hp than your enemy ;D ]

Rod of Atos is very good, because it gives you 25 intelligence, 250 hp and Cripple ability, which slows the enemy's move-speed by 50% for 4 seconds, with a 20 seconds cooldown, so you can chase them, flee from them, and it has a kind of a low cooldown, so you can use one or 2 times in a fight.

And to finish some consumables items:



Observer Wards can be much useful, you spray them by the map, so you can see where the enemies are so you can gank them more.

Sentry wards can be used as observer wards, but only if you are fighting against heroes that can go invisible, if no, use observer wards, as they last longer.

Dust of Appearance is used when you are ganking someone who can go invisible, if they go invisible, you use Dust of Appearance and go chase him ;D.

Gem of True Sight is used if you are farming well, so you do not have to buy a lot of dusts and wards.

Empty Bottle is bought if you are farming well and need to recover fast, enter the fight, do a lot of damage, leave the fight, heal with bottle, go to the fight again and kill him.


Courier and Flying Courier are bought if you can in the start of the game, as you won't come much to the base if you play well.

At early-game you should buy some items to boost damage, health, mana and of course, move-speed as:



Choose some of them as Xin can have many different styles early-game.

Well, I think that's all folks, please tell me if I forgot to say something, I wish that this guide helps everyone that loves my loved Fire Panda.