K'Sante vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as K'Sante
based on 2,065 K'Sante vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Xin Zhao
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several vital K'Sante versus Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Xin Zhao.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Xin Zhaoas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante 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 late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a trash counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante 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 tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often accumulates much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities 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 displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Xin Zhao build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better countering Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Xin Zhao with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for K'Sante vs Xin Zhao face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
If you need to see K'Sante versus Xin Zhao tips and counter builds for a a particular rank, please choose one from the selection menu above. At first, the statistics and build suggestions displayed are computed using every game played with both champs.