Talon vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Talon
based on 2,856 Talon vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Xin Zhao
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Talon in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Talon versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Talon or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Talon usually fairs equally well when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Talon makes an ok counter for Xin Zhao.
While Talon does have a lower win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Talon vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Talon against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon often gets much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Talon versus Xin Zhao build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Xin Zhao as Talon, Talon players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Talon vs Xin Zhao counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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