Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,034 Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Xin Zhao
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Nunu & Willump versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between these two champs. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a terribly counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Xin Zhao build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Xin Zhao than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when playing against Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Xin Zhao as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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