Morgana vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Morgana
based on 5,961 Morgana vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Xin Zhao
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Morgana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some important Morgana against Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Morgana normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Morgana or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Morgana usually fairs equally well when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Morgana does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Morgana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Morgana into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Morgana also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Morgana versus Xin Zhao build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as Morgana, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Morgana vs Xin Zhao clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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