Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 show some significant Udyr vs. Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Udyr usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually fairs equally well when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Udyr makes an ok counter for Xin Zhao.
While Udyr does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Udyr also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Udyr into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Udyr is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Udyr against Xin Zhao.
If you would like to truly master Udyr 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr typically gets more CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Udyr versus Xin Zhao build consist of Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Abyssal Mask. When Udyr used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Udyr boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Udyr, Udyr players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Udyr vs Xin Zhao matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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