Jarvan IV vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Jarvan IV
based on 1,986 Jarvan IV vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jarvan IV vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV against Xin Zhao
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Jarvan IV in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Jarvan IV versus Xin Zhao counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Jarvan IV typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jarvan IV and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Jarvan IV or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jarvan IV usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 44.5% win rate. Thus, Jarvan IV makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Jarvan IV does have a much lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Jarvan IV also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jarvan IV into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Jarvan IV has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jarvan IV 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 team members during teamfights.
Jarvan IV is a terribly counter to Xin Zhao. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Jarvan IV against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jarvan IV in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Jarvan IV versus Xin Zhao build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average win rate of 44.5% battling Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Jarvan IV, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Jarvan IV vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.5% win rate overall.
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