Xin Zhao vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Xin Zhao
based on 1,483 Xin Zhao vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Taliyah
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.
Advice to Win Against Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Xin Zhao vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Xin Zhao against Taliyah counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Xin Zhao often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Taliyah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Xin Zhao makes a good counter for Taliyah.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Xin Zhao also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Xin Zhao into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Xin Zhao also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. 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 Taliyah matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Xin Zhao is a decent counter for Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xin Zhao to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao often gets less CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xin Zhao versus Taliyah build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 51.2% battling Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Taliyah as Xin Zhao, you should equip 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 runes players picked for Xin Zhao vs Taliyah battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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