Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Singed versus Xin Zhao matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Singed typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Singed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Singed makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Singed does have a higher winrate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Singed also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Singed into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Singed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Singed vs Xin Zhao matchups, Singed is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Singed is a decent counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Singed against Xin Zhao.
To truly master Singed to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed typically picks up much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Singed versus Xin Zhao build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Force of Nature, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Singed boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Xin Zhao as Singed, Singed players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Singed vs Xin Zhao counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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