Kindred vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Kindred
based on 2,309 Kindred vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Xin Zhao
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Kindred vs. Xin Zhao counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Kindred normally has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Typically, they receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Kindred or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Kindred also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kindred into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Kindred has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kindred 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 allied champions during team fights.
Kindred is a trash counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kindred versus Xin Zhao build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs Xin Zhao than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Xin Zhao with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Xin Zhao as Kindred, Kindred players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kindred vs Xin Zhao fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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