Zed vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Zed
based on 4,631 Zed vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Xin Zhao
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Xin Zhao
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.
Zed vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Zed versus Xin Zhao matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Zed or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zed is a garbage counter to Xin Zhao. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zed against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually accumulates much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zed versus Xin Zhao build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 47.4% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zed vs Xin Zhao fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Zed are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.