Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Xin Zhao
based on 4,232 Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Xin Zhao vs. Lee Sin counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Xin Zhao often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Xin Zhao makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Xin Zhao into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Xin Zhao also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xin Zhao is a great counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xin Zhao against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Xin Zhao versus Lee Sin build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 53.4% when playing against Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Lee Sin as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Xin Zhao vs Lee Sin matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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