Tristana vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Tristana
based on 3,903 Tristana vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Xin Zhao
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Tristana vs. Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Tristana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Tristana or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes a bad counter to Xin Zhao.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often picks up much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tristana versus Xin Zhao build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 48.4% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Tristana, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tristana vs Xin Zhao battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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