Ziggs vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Ziggs
based on 1,752 Ziggs vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Xin Zhao
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several important Ziggs versus Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Ziggs normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ziggs is a garbage counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often accumulates much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ziggs versus Xin Zhao build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 46.7% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Xin Zhao as Ziggs, Ziggs players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Ziggs vs Xin Zhao counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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