Xin Zhao vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Xin Zhao
based on 4,410 Xin Zhao vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Xin Zhao vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several significant Xin Zhao vs. Leona counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Xin Zhao usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Leona
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Xin Zhao makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Xin Zhao does have a lower win rate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Xin Zhao also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Xin Zhao into Leona.
Furthermore, Xin Zhao also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xin Zhao is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Xin Zhao versus Leona build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Leona as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Xin Zhao vs Leona clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Leona as Xin Zhao are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.