Akshan vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Akshan
based on 2,294 Akshan vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Xin Zhao
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Akshan versus Xin Zhao counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Akshan normally has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. On average, they takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Akshan or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a bad counter to Xin Zhao.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Akshan also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akshan into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a bad counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often gets much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akshan versus Xin Zhao build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they did much better vs. Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 46.9% when countering Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Xin Zhao as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akshan vs Xin Zhao battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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