Vayne vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Vayne
based on 6,620 Vayne vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Xin Zhao
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Vayne versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Vayne often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Vayne or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes an ok counter for Xin Zhao.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Xin Zhao matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vayne to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually accumulates much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Vayne versus Xin Zhao build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Vayne bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 50.3% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Xin Zhao as Vayne, Vayne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vayne vs Xin Zhao fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Vayne are displayed for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.