Katarina vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Katarina
based on 4,480 Katarina vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Xin Zhao
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Katarina versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Katarina or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often gets much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Katarina versus Xin Zhao build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Xin Zhao face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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