Bard vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Bard
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Bard vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Xin Zhao
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Xin Zhao
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.
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.
Bard vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several important Bard versus Xin Zhao counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Bard or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter for Xin Zhao.
While Bard does have a higher win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Bard 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, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Xin Zhao matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bard against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often gets less CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Bard versus Xin Zhao build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Dead Man's Plate, and Shard of True Ice. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 53.9% when countering Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Bard, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Bard vs Xin Zhao matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Bard are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.