Thresh vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Thresh
based on 5,030 Thresh vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Xin Zhao
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several strategic Thresh against Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Thresh or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a lot 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh 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 allies during teamfights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Thresh versus Xin Zhao build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Xin Zhao as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Thresh vs Xin Zhao battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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