XinQ

Zhao "XinQ" Zixing (born July 6, 1998) is a Chinese professional Dota 2 soft support currently playing for Vici Gaming. XinQ is one of the most accomplished support players China has ever produced—over $2.3 million in career prize money, a TI runner-up, a 2022 Asian Games gold medalist, and a player who reinvented himself completely between 2023 and 2025 to become arguably the best support in the world at his peak.

Early Career

XinQ started with TongFu. WanZhou in 2014 at 16 years old, grinding through China's domestic circuit at a time when the country was producing the most dominant Dota 2 teams in the world. He bounced between the main TongFu squad and the WanZhou developmental roster several times before the organization found its footing. The TI5 Chinese qualifier run ended in the group stage. He cycled through FTD Club and For The Dream over the following years—solid domestic results, but nothing that announced him as a future top-tier talent. Team Serenity came next, then EHOME in February 2019. The EHOME chapter lasted nearly two years and built the foundation of his international reputation.

PSG.LGD and the TI Run

In September 2020, XinQ joined PSG.LGD—the move that changed everything. Alongside Ame, Faith_bian, y`, and NothingToSay under coach xiao8, he became part of one of the most complete Chinese rosters of the era. The statistics from this period are staggering—at the ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021, he posted the highest average kills per game (4.14) of any support player in the tournament. At the WePlay AniMajor he had the highest average assists per game (15.92). He won the AniMajor title with PSG.LGD that year, and then at TI10 the team reached the grand final. They were up 2-0 on Team Spirit. Spirit reversed the sweep 3-2. XinQ had the Aegis in sight and watched it slip away in one of the most heartbreaking TI grand finals ever played.

He stayed at LGD until late 2022, revealed a wrist injury that had been affecting him throughout the season, and departed. The injury context explained a lot about why results had declined in his final months there.

Xtreme Gaming, Asian Games, and the Comeback

In July 2023, XinQ joined Xtreme Gaming—a team in the process of becoming one of the best rosters in China. He won the ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 with Azure Ray on loan just before that and then returned to XG full-time. What followed was his most sustained high-level run since the PSG. LGD days: 1st place at Elite League 2024, 3rd at DreamLeague Season 22, and 2nd at PGL Wallachia Season 1. He was also part of the Chinese national team that won gold at the 2022 Asian Games—Dota 2's first appearance as an official medal sport.

The TI 2025 run with Xtreme Gaming was the closest he came to a second TI final. XG reached the grand final and lost to Team Falcons. Another near-miss. XinQ left Xtreme Gaming on October 1, 2025. In late March 2026, he joined Vici Gaming as a stand-in. VG won the ESL Challenger China Season 3 x ACL 2026 in May 2026 — their first title in six years — with XinQ in the lineup.

Playstyle and Reputation

XinQ is a soft support who plays for kills. The statistics from his PSG.LGD peak—the highest kills per game among all supports at a major and the highest assists per game at the AniMajor—describe a player who is not content to sit back and ward. He finds kill pressure, he creates chaos in the mid-game, and he has the individual ceiling to back up the aggression. In a 2024 interview, he named the best supports in the 7.36c patch unprompted—the kind of detail that tells you this is someone who studies the game constantly. In the Vici Gaming lineup alongside Faith_bian, y', Shiro, and Xm, the experience density is extraordinary. When things are clicking, that roster is arguably the deepest Chinese team assembled in years.

Fun Facts

XinQ was part of PSG.LGD when they were up 2-0 in the TI10 grand final and lost to Team Spirit. Then he was part of Xtreme Gaming when they reached the TI 2025 grand final and lost to Team Falcons. Two TI grand finals. Zero Aegis. The cruelty of that sequence is hard to overstate for a player of his caliber.

In November 2022 he publicly revealed his wrist injury and said he might miss the early 2023 season. He came back fully, rebuilt his form, and reached another TI grand final. That recovery arc deserves more recognition than it typically gets.