Heimerdinger vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Heimerdinger
based on 1,843 Heimerdinger vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Xin Zhao
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Heimerdinger against Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Heimerdinger often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Heimerdinger into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger 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 allies during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a garbage counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger typically picks up more CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Heimerdinger versus Xin Zhao build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Xin Zhao than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as Heimerdinger, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Xin Zhao clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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