Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Cho'Gath
based on 2,710 Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Xin Zhao
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
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.
Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Cho'Gath against Xin Zhao counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Cho'Gath typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Cho'Gath also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Cho'Gath into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Cho'Gath is a trash counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath 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 pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath on average accumulates much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Cho'Gath versus Xin Zhao build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Xin Zhao than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Cho'Gath vs Xin Zhao face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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