Xin Zhao vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Xin Zhao
based on 7,403 Xin Zhao vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Brand
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Xin Zhao vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Xin Zhao versus Brand counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Xin Zhao often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Brand. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Brand
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Xin Zhao makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Xin Zhao does have a lower winrate than Brand, when facing one another, Xin Zhao also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xin Zhao into Brand.
Additionally, Xin Zhao has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Xin Zhao is a somewhat poor counter for Brand. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Xin Zhao against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Xin Zhao versus Brand build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Brand than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Brand as Xin Zhao, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Xin Zhao vs Brand fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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