Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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 stat comparisons shown here underscore some vital Fiora against Xin Zhao matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Fiora often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiora usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Fiora makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Fiora does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Fiora also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiora into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Fiora 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 trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Fiora is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fiora against Xin Zhao.
To truly master Fiora in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora most often picks up much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Fiora versus Xin Zhao build include Ravenous Hydra, Hullbreaker, and Death's Dance. When Fiora incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Fiora had an average winrate of 49.0% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Xin Zhao as Fiora, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Fiora vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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