Nasus vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Nasus
based on 3,549 Nasus vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Xin Zhao
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some critical Nasus versus Xin Zhao counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Nasus or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Nasus also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus 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 teammates during teamfights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus 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 pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average racks up much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Xin Zhao build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 48.4% battling Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Nasus, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nasus vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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