Nidalee vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Nidalee
based on 874 Nidalee vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Xin Zhao
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Nidalee versus Xin Zhao counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 42.2% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 Nidalee vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Xin Zhao build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 42.2% battling Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nidalee vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.2% win rate overall.
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