Alistar vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Alistar
based on 2,208 Alistar vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Xin Zhao
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some critical Alistar versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Alistar or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar 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 teammates during team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Alistar versus Xin Zhao build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Xin Zhao as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Alistar vs Xin Zhao matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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