Renekton vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Renekton
based on 2,030 Renekton vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Renekton vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Renekton vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Renekton
Tips for Playing as Renekton against Xin Zhao
Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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.
Renekton vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Renekton in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Renekton versus Xin Zhao counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Renekton typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Renekton and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Renekton or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Renekton usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 45.2% win rate. Thus, Renekton makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Renekton does have a much lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Renekton also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Renekton into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Renekton has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Renekton 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Renekton is a garbage counter to Xin Zhao. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Renekton against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Renekton in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton on average gets much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Renekton versus Xin Zhao build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Renekton had an average win rate of 45.2% when playing against Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Xin Zhao as Renekton, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Renekton vs Xin Zhao counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xin Zhao as Renekton are displayed for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.