Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
The stats provided here show some valuable Dr. Mundo versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Dr. Mundo typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually wins when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Dr. Mundo makes a good counter to Xin Zhao.
While Dr. Mundo does have a higher winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Dr. Mundo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Dr. Mundo into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Dr. Mundo also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Dr. Mundo vs Xin Zhao matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a decent counter to Xin Zhao. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Dr. Mundo against Xin Zhao.
To truly master Dr. Mundo in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo typically accumulates much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Dr. Mundo versus Xin Zhao build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Dr. Mundo included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Xin Zhao as Dr. Mundo, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Dr. Mundo vs Xin Zhao counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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