Gnar vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Gnar
based on 1,311 Gnar vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Xin Zhao
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Gnar vs. Xin Zhao matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Gnar or Xin Zhao?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Gnar into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gnar is a garbage counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average accumulates much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gnar versus Xin Zhao build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Xin Zhao than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 46.4% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as Gnar, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Gnar vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.4% winrate overall.
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