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.
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Xin Zhao vs. Shyvana matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana..
Xin Zhao often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Shyvana. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when taking on Shyvana, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Xin Zhao makes a good counter for Shyvana.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher win rate than Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Xin Zhao into Shyvana.
Furthermore, Xin Zhao has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Shyvana matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xin Zhao is an above average counter to Shyvana. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xin Zhao against Shyvana.
To truly master Xin Zhao to counter Shyvana 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao typically accumulates less CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao versus Shyvana build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Shyvana than with most other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 52.3% when countering Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Shyvana as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Xin Zhao vs Shyvana matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Shyvana as Xin Zhao are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.