Leona vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Leona
based on 4,410 Leona vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Xin Zhao
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Leona against Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Leona or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter to Xin Zhao.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Leona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Xin Zhao matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Leona versus Xin Zhao build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Leona vs Xin Zhao face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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