Ahri vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Ahri
based on 3,535 Ahri vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Xin Zhao
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Ahri vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Ahri in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Ahri against Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Ahri often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Ahri or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often picks up much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Xin Zhao build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Xin Zhao as Ahri, Ahri players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ahri vs Xin Zhao battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Ahri are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.