Xin Zhao Quotes

Champion Select

Pick

• "One spear, one thousand battles."

Ban

• "A warrior's spirit is never broken."

Movement

First Move

• "'Seneschal' is a title. A duty. The king's sworn protector and most trusted advisor."
• "If the people of this world forget what truly matters, I will remind them."
• "I am the king's spear, driven into the heart of the unjust."
• "To protect something greater than yourself—that is why I serve Demacia."

First Move › First Move with Ally Jarvan IV

• "My prince, heed your training. The lance may falter, but you must not."

First Move › First Move with Ally Kennen

• "Your lessons keep me grounded, Master Kennen."

First Move › First Move with Ally Sona Both sides

• "Lady Sona, if I fall today, let your song carry me home."

First Move › First Move with Ally Yunara Both sides

• "I stand at your side once more, Yunara."

First Move › First Move with an Ally Demacian

• "Stand tall, Demacian, we must defend the shieldless!"

Moving

• "Fate offered me a second chance, and I took it."
• "Fate has made its choice."
• "The royal accounts can wait."
• Xin Zhao sighs. "One sweep of the palace, five new problems."
• "Demacia is not perfect, but it tries."
• "Noxus taught me survival—nothing else."
• "A warrior moves with purpose."
• "I fight for the dream of Demacia."
• "The pits broke everything but my spirit."
• "The king's spear obeys."
• "I carry the weight of the king's trust with each step."
• "I go where the king commands."
• "I would pay a king's ransom for a cup of Ionian tea."
• "Follow the just path, no matter how narrow."
• "My eyes are sharp. The silverwings would agree."
• "Finally, freedom from all that courtly gossip…!"
• "Nothing soothes old wounds like an Ionian healer."
• "I am bound by oath, not birth."
• "Better to move forward than dwell on the past."
• "A warrior learns to read the sound of footsteps."

Long Move

• "Demacia is a fighter full of promise: gifted and disciplined, but still untested."
• "I fought in the arenas of Noxus. First to avoid punishment, then because I was good at it."
• "Of the many masters I have served, there is only one I would call friend."
• "May I serve as the seneschal of Demacia until my final breath."
• "Every step carries the weight of two lives: the one I lost and the one I chose."
• "Demacia's walls are strongest when our gates remain open."
• "I once thrilled the crowds. Now I serve the king of Demacia."
• "A king's gift is never free; this spear came with purpose and cause."
• "There is no peace for me… but duty offers a measure of stillness to my spirit."
• "I would rather die fighting for the shieldless, than live out my days in regret."
• "Why would fate choose a boy from a fishing boat to serve a king? We may never know."

First Encounter

• "I trained a prince. You fight like a squire!"
• "The crown's justice has found you!"
• "Your footwork says much—none of it good."
• "Fate rarely gives warnings; this is yours."

First Encounter with Alistar

• "Reckoner to reckoner: you know what comes next."

First Encounter with Draven

• "Brash. Vain. Unwashed. You must be Draven."

First Encounter with Garen

• "Your name is your oath, Crownguard, and both are in question."

First Encounter with Jarvan IV

• "You shame your father's crown!"

First Encounter with Prestige Visions of the Fallen Jarvan IV

• "It is true then… The boy I knew is dead."

First Encounter with Kennen

• "The storm within you clouds your judgment, Master Kennen."

First Encounter with LeBlanc

• "Your mask becomes you, deceiver."

First Encounter with Sion

• "Return the crown, butcher, or I will carve it from your face!"

First Encounter with Sona Both sides

• "It saddens me to see you so far from home, with discord in your heart."

First Encounter with Yunara Both sides

• "Your temple lies in ruins, Yunara. Do not follow its fate."

First Encounter with a Darkin

• "Another beast that thinks itself immortal."

First Encounter with a Demacian

• "You have strayed from the righteous path!"

First Encounter with an Ionian

• "My spirit may be rooted in Ionia, but my duty is to Demacia."

First Encounter with a Noxian

• "I once bled for Noxus—today, you will bleed for me."
• "You remind me of all those reckoners no one remembers."

Taunt

• "I may be outnumbered, but not even the odds can stand against me."

Taunt Response

• "You are very confident for someone so unproven."

Joke

• "Hup! Hyah! Please inform the king I landed safely."

Attack

Attacking

• "Do not hesitate."
• "This ends in silence."
• "You flinched!"
• "Not while I stand."
• "For the crown!"
• "No cheers for you."
• "Hardly a threat."
• "Here is a tip—and a spear behind it."
• "Your form is loud."
• "Come now, do better."
• "You call that a stance?"
• "Less flourish, more fighting."
• "To triumph!"
• "Do not bore me."
• "Tighten your guard."
• "Your life is forfeit!"

Attacking › Attacking Rift Herald

• "Fate made you; I will unmake you."

Attacking › Attacking the Dragon

• "Demacia always stood against flame and scale."

Attacking › Attacking Atakhan

• "Your hunger dies here, foul thing!"

Attacking › Attacking Baron Nashor

• "I have silenced louder creatures in darker pits."

Ability Casting

Using Three Talon Strike › Third attack

• "Flinch and fall!"
• "Strike true!"
• "Staggered!"

Using Wind Becomes Lightning › Hitting

• "Make way!"
• "Brace for the lesson!"
• "Right through you!"
• "Clear a path!"

Using Crescent Guard

• "FACE THE KING'S SPEAR!"
• "TO THE ARENA!"

Kills and Objectives

Killing a Champion

• "Hesitation… that is all it took."
• "Another falls, the crowd cheers."
• "Perish with honor."
• "Lesson learned… the hard way."
• "Perhaps you will find strength in the next life."

Killing Alistar

• "We could have stood together. Instead, you fall alone."

Killing Draven

• "Reckoner down. Send up the next."
• "Hear that? Noxus cheers your fall."

Killing Garen

• "Demacia did not merely lose a sword. It lost its heart."

Killing Jarvan IV

• "One of us lost our way. I hope… it was not me."
• "What am I to tell your father, lad? Or our people?"

Killing Kennen

• "I was sure you would outlive us all, Master Kennen."

Killing LeBlanc

• "Your schemes die with you, deceiver."

Killing Sion

• "The insult to the throne has been answered… in kind."

Killing Yunara Both sides

• "Better the myth than what you became."

Killing a Darkin

• "Your age has passed, darkin. Stay buried."
• "You are no god, only a disappointment."

Killing a Demacian

• "I had hoped never to spill Demacian blood again."

Killing a Demon

• "Whatever this was, demon, it is done."

Killing an Ionian

• "May your spirit choose a more enlightened path."

Killing a Noxian

• "Another death Noxus will not mourn."

Scoring First Blood

• "First to fall!"

Scoring a Pentakill

• "I AM BUT ONE DEMACIAN! IMAGINE AN ARMY!"

Killing a Jungle Camp

• "Nothing left standing."
• "Cleared in the crown's name."

Killing Blue Sentinel

• "You are no colossus."

Killing Red Brambleback

• "Scorched, and still I stand."

Killing Atakhan

• "Fate brought us here, demon. The spear did the rest."

Other Gameplay

Destroying a Ward

• "Not in my master's kingdom."
• "Bloodshed averted."
• "You call that subtle?"
• "Demacia clears the path."

Recall

• "A thousand battles mean nothing—only the last one matters."
• "It is better to walk away upright than crawl back humbled."
• "A reckoner rests between bouts. A seneschal returns to serve."
• "A warrior does not retreat; he merely repositions."
• "I must confer with the king."

Death

• "Demacia… must endure…"
• "My king… forgive this failure…"
• "Jarvan… lead them…"

Respawn

• "A brutal reminder that fate has no favorites."
• "A lesson to be learned for certain."
• "A warrior may fall, but duty persists."
• "The 'great Viscero', hmph… Get back out there."
• "Neither my spear nor my spirit falters."