Lissandra vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Lissandra
based on 1,608 Lissandra vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Xin Zhao
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Lissandra in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Lissandra vs. Xin Zhao matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Lissandra typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lissandra and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Lissandra 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, Lissandra usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Lissandra makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Lissandra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Lissandra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra 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 teamfights.
Lissandra is a terribly counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lissandra to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra on average accumulates much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Xin Zhao build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lissandra included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Lissandra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lissandra vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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