If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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 show several vital Lux versus Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Lux usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Lux does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Lux also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Lux has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lux is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Xin Zhao.
If you would like to truly master Lux to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually racks up more CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Lux versus Xin Zhao build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Xin Zhao as Lux, Lux players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Lux vs Xin Zhao counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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