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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Xin Zhao vs. Soraka counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Xin Zhao normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xin Zhao usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Xin Zhao makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher win rate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Xin Zhao into Soraka.
Furthermore, Xin Zhao also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Soraka matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Xin Zhao is a decent counter for Soraka. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Soraka.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao most often gets more CS compared to Soraka. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Xin Zhao versus Soraka build include Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Soraka than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 50.9% battling Soraka with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Soraka as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Xin Zhao vs Soraka LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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