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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Xin Zhao vs. Singed counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Singed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Singed..
Xin Zhao usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Singed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually fairs equally well when playing against Singed, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Xin Zhao makes an ok counter for Singed.
While Xin Zhao does have a lower win rate compared to Singed, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xin Zhao into Singed.
Additionally, Xin Zhao has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Xin Zhao is a somewhat poor counter for Singed. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Singed.
To truly master Xin Zhao to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao most often picks up a lot less CS as Singed. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xin Zhao versus Singed build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Singed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Singed with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Singed as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players 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 chose for Xin Zhao vs Singed clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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