Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Yuumi against Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Yuumi usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 43.8% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a bad counter to Xin Zhao.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yuumi into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Yuumi also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yuumi is a bad counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yuumi against Xin Zhao.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Yuumi versus Xin Zhao build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Yuumi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 43.8% when countering Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Xin Zhao as Yuumi, Yuumi players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Yuumi vs Xin Zhao counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Yuumi are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.