Xin Zhao vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Xin Zhao
based on 1,242 Xin Zhao vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Xin Zhao vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Xin Zhao vs. Taric counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Xin Zhao typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Taric
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Taric?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Xin Zhao makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Xin Zhao does have a lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Xin Zhao also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Xin Zhao into Taric.
Moreover, Xin Zhao has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Xin Zhao is a terribly counter to Taric. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Taric. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities 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 case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Xin Zhao versus Taric build include Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Taric than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when countering Taric with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Taric 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Xin Zhao vs Taric face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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