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 Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Xin Zhao vs. Kled counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kled’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kled..
Xin Zhao typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kled. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually loses when playing against Kled, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Xin Zhao makes a bad counter for Kled.
While Xin Zhao does have a lower win rate than Kled, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Xin Zhao into Kled.
Furthermore, Xin Zhao also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kled. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Kled matchups, Kled is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xin Zhao is a trash counter for Kled. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Kled.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to counter Kled during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao most often gets a lot less CS as Kled. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Xin Zhao versus Kled build include Titanic Hydra, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Kled than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Kled with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Kled as Xin Zhao, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Xin Zhao vs Kled matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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