Xin Zhao Counter: Xin Zhao is a fighter who dives on backlines and does good amounts of burst damage and sustained damage. He’s not terribly tanky, and his scaling is poor, but during mid game, he’s a good initiator and teamfighter. Late game, he’s forced into building entirely tanky and distracting the enemy team into attack him, as he has hardly any CC to peel for his carries. Xin Zhao is a powerful, but risky solo-laner as he lacks escapes. In the jungle, he creates pressure early with his strong clearing, dueling, and ganking. Xin Zhao’s itemization is surprisingly diverse. Instead of building raw damage, CDR and durability are better for actually surviving dives onto enemies.

Patch:
8.17

Win Rate:
52.79%

Play Rate:

Ban Rate:
0.64%

Win Rate by
Game Length:
47.73%

Tips To Deal With Xin Zhao Counter 8.19

1) Xin Zhao’s Q/Three Talon Strike empowers his next three auto-attacks also granting him a knock-up on the third as well reducing the cooldown of the rest of his abilities. When he is using this, try to disengage by using a dash or any form of mobility to prevent him from landing the knock-up.

2) When Xin Zhao casts his ultimate Crescent Guard it grants him with an Area of Effect shield which prevents any damage incoming from outside the shield. So try to CC him with stuns or roots and then get into the shield before dealing any damage to him since it will be easily negated and if you get too close to him then he could change focus and damage you.

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3) Xin is an auto-attack based physical damage dealer so picking items like Warden Mail and champions like malphite which provide attack speed reduction and have a lot of armor are extremely good against Xin.

4) Xin has very high damage, especially in higher stages of the game. Avoid trading with him as it will most likely go in his favour.