Ryze vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Ryze
based on 1,123 Ryze vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Xin Zhao
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Ryze in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Ryze vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Ryze usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Ryze or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Ryze does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Ryze also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ryze into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze 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 team members during team fights.
Ryze is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ryze against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze 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 above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze often accumulates much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ryze versus Xin Zhao build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ryze boasted an average winrate of 48.1% battling Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Xin Zhao as Ryze, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ryze vs Xin Zhao fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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