Anivia vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Anivia
based on 1,829 Anivia vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Xin Zhao
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several vital Anivia vs. Xin Zhao matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Anivia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Anivia and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Anivia or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually fairs equally well when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Anivia makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Anivia does have a lower win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Anivia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Anivia into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Anivia has some 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Anivia is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Anivia to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia often accumulates much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Anivia versus Xin Zhao build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Anivia, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Anivia vs Xin Zhao fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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