Kayle vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Kayle
based on 3,653 Kayle vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Xin Zhao
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some important Kayle versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Kayle often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Kayle or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a bad counter to Xin Zhao.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Kayle also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has only a small 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often gets much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kayle versus Xin Zhao build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kayle bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when countering Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Xin Zhao as Kayle, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kayle vs Xin Zhao matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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