Fiddlesticks vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats provided here feature some influential Fiddlesticks against Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Fiddlesticks typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Fiddlesticks makes a bad counter to Xin Zhao.
While Fiddlesticks does have a much lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Fiddlesticks into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks also 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a bad counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Fiddlesticks against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Fiddlesticks versus Xin Zhao build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 45.9% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Xin Zhao as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Fiddlesticks vs Xin Zhao clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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