Bard vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Bard
based on 3,856 Bard vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
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 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.
Bard vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here feature some significant Bard versus Xin Zhao counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Bard or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good 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 reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot 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 an above average counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own 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 early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Bard versus Xin Zhao build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Xin Zhao as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Bard vs Xin Zhao counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Bard are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.