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.
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Xin Zhao vs. Thresh matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Thresh. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Xin Zhao usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Thresh. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when taking on Thresh, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Xin Zhao makes a good counter to Thresh.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher winrate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Xin Zhao into Thresh.
Additionally, Xin Zhao has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Thresh matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a noticably 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 good counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xin Zhao against Thresh.
To learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to counter Thresh during both the early game 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 suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Thresh. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Xin Zhao versus Thresh build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Thresh than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when playing against Thresh with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Thresh as Xin Zhao, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Xin Zhao vs Thresh counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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