Shaco vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Shaco
based on 4,371 Shaco vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Xin Zhao
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Shaco vs. Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Shaco often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Shaco or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average gets a similar amount of CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Shaco versus Xin Zhao build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Shaco combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Xin Zhao than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 48.5% battling Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Shaco vs Xin Zhao counters, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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