Nami vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Nami
based on 3,797 Nami vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Xin Zhao
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some critical Nami versus Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Nami or Xin Zhao?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Nami does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nami into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Nami has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nami 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 teamfights.
Nami is a garbage counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami typically gets less CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nami versus Xin Zhao build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Xin Zhao than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Xin Zhao as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nami vs Xin Zhao counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Nami are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.