Yasuo vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Yasuo
based on 8,436 Yasuo vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Xin Zhao
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several vital Yasuo vs. Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Yasuo often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes an ok counter for Xin Zhao.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yasuo into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Xin Zhao matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Yasuo is a decent counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yasuo in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo often accumulates much more CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Yasuo versus Xin Zhao build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Xin Zhao than with most other typical builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Xin Zhao as Yasuo, Yasuo players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Yasuo vs Xin Zhao matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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