Viktor vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Viktor
based on 1,883 Viktor vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Xin Zhao
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some significant Viktor vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Viktor usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Viktor or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Viktor usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Viktor makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Viktor does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Viktor into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Viktor has almost no amount 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a bad counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor most often gets much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Viktor versus Xin Zhao build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Xin Zhao as Viktor, Viktor players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Viktor vs Xin Zhao battles, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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