Lulu vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Lulu
based on 2,031 Lulu vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Xin Zhao
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
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.
Lulu vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Lulu in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Lulu versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Lulu normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Lulu or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lulu usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Lulu makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Lulu does have a lower win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Lulu also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lulu into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Lulu has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lulu 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 team fights.
Lulu is a trash counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lulu against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lulu 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 gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu most often gets a similar amount of CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Lulu versus Xin Zhao build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Mikael's Blessing, and Dream Maker. When Lulu incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lulu boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing against Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Xin Zhao as Lulu, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Lulu vs Xin Zhao clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
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