Rek'Sai vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Rek'Sai
based on 709 Rek'Sai vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Xin Zhao
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Rek'Sai vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Rek'Sai typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rek'Sai into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Rek'Sai also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai 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 team members during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a trash counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rek'Sai in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Rek'Sai versus Xin Zhao build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average winrate of 47.5% battling Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Xin Zhao as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Rek'Sai vs Xin Zhao battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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