Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Watch out for Corki's Missile Barrage. They deal splash damage, so you can get hit even when hiding behind minions.
Corki is vulnerable after he uses his Valkyrie or Special Delivery, so try switching focus to him if he uses them to enter a fight.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some critical Xin Zhao vs. Corki matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Corki’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Corki..
Xin Zhao normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Corki. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when trying to fight Corki, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Xin Zhao makes a good counter to Corki.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher win rate compared to Corki, when facing one another, Xin Zhao also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Xin Zhao into Corki.
Additionally, Xin Zhao has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Corki. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Corki matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Xin Zhao is a good counter to Corki. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xin Zhao against Corki.
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to counter Corki during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao on average accumulates a lot less CS as Corki. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xin Zhao versus Corki build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Corki than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 52.8% battling Corki with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Corki as Xin Zhao, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Xin Zhao vs Corki counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
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