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QSS is necessary if you don't want to kill yourself when he taunts you. He becomes unkillable once he gets thornmail.
Hecarim
Busted champ. Impossible to lock down and outscales you heavily.
Kha'Zix
1v1 matchup becomes impossible after he gets duskblade. Avoid 1v1s and teamfight.
Graves
Amumu
Merc treads are great vs amumu.
Evelynn
Easiest matchup for Xin. Completely destroy her early and mid game. Only problem is when she gets 25 stacks on her mejais.
Kindred
You can ult people out of Kindred ult. 1v1ing him is easy.
Dr. Mundo
The new mundo is fairly weak but once he gets tanky he can be a nuisance,
Ekko
Avoid his W stun and don't stand on his ult shadow.
Gragas
Gragas isn't played much but his e counters your dash.
Rek'Sai
Can't win if you let Rek'sai knock you up. One of the only other junglers that uses hail of blades as well as Xin.
Nocturne
Go Phase rush to run away from his fear. Extremely tough to 1v1 if you get feared. Dodge his Q and stay out of his Q puddle to win.
Fiddlesticks
Knock him up once he starts draining you. Early game he is weak so invade him for free kills. Get vision for his ult so he can't one shot you. Merc treads required.
Rengar
Fairly easy unless he fully stacks his bonetooth neckless and gets fed. He can't teamfight so it should be easy to win fights.
Ivern
Serpents fang destroys Ivern.
Elise
Dodge cocoon and this is the freest matchup.
Jax
Dodge counterstrike or you will probably die. Phase rush very useful to run from him but it is a skill matchup that you win early but he scales better.
Olaf
Must dodge axes. Becomes impossible once he gets his ult. Can invade against Olaf because he gets low in the jungle especially first clear.
Nidalee
Dodge the spear, or don't, you probably still beat her.
Shaco
Don't hit the clone! Smite the boxes. Don't walk into the boxes, rush sweeper first back. Buy pinks!
Jarvan IV
J4 is weak now. Should be easy to win.
Lee Sin
Try to dodge his Q. His ult is scary because it allows him to q you after for free. Avoid 1v1ing after 6 because he can always ward hop away, but you can't escape.
Nunu & Willump
Try to dodge the snowball. Knock him up to cancel his ult. Very weak early game and executioners destroys him.
Shyvana
Contest every drag.
Master Yi
Somehow Yi seems to be more broken every season. This is a tough skill matchup because Yi can alpha your ult/w and destroy your team once he gets fed. Your knockup cancels his meditate. Try to save ult for when he alpha strikes.
Kayn
Executioners is huge for this matchup. Fed Blue Kayn can 1 shot you if you build full damage. Red Kayn is unkillable.
Skarner
QSS his ult and you should be fine. Nobody plays skarner anyways.
Sejuani
Merc treads will win you this matchup. Sej is nonexistant in soloqueue.
Zac
Invade him for free kills. Step on his blobs so he can't heal + buy exe.
Udyr
Avoid fighting him he will statcheck you hard.
Trundle
Avoid fighting him he will statcheck you hard. Hardest matchup imo.
Sylas
Exucutioners wins this matchup.
Volibear
Dodge his E. Impossible to kill. Most of the time you can just walk away from him but if he catches you good luck.
Zilean
Free GA. Also his E makes you super Xin.
Gangplank
Try to countergank for gp and other weak lanes that will draw jg attention.
Galio
Ulti synergy is insane.
Kayle
Ulti synergy is insane.
Kassadin
HAHA you wanted that scuttle? If the enemy mid has a brain you have 0 prio for 30 minutes. Dodge kass games if you want to win/preserve your sanity.
Yuumi
Make Yuumi sit on you for a free win.
Sett
Great Ult Synergy
Malphite
Huge Teamfighting power
Diana
Diana is basically AP genderbent Xin.
Bard
Bards are always a coinflip whether they will save you or kill you.
Aurelion Sol
Great roaming /diving bot potential.
Draven
Strong snowballing champ similar to Xin, able to win the game before 10 mins and get an easy ff15.
Camille
Similar engage playstyles. Can shadow her in a sidelane to allow her to splitpush effectively.
Alistar
We go IN.
Maokai
Great gank setup.
Annie
Go mid when Annie has her passive ready for a free kill.
Illaoi
Kalista
Katarina
Gnar
Leona
Kog'Maw
Peel for Kog
Lulu
Lissandra
Huge gank setup.
Nasus
Let Nasus farm stacks alone, don't waste time ganking top.
Shen
My favorite champ to have on my team. Will get you out of any bad situation.
Yasuo
You have 2 knockups for yasuo to ult off of.
Karma
Morgana
Convince morg to black shield you instead of the adc.
Malzahar
Free kills whenever malz ult is up.
Irelia
Irelia has the same playstyle as Xin which can be shut down by enemy tanks building tabis+bramble.
Tahm Kench
Unbench the Kench.
Wukong
Samira
The only adc that will go in with you.
Synergies
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Zilean
Free GA. Also his E makes you super Xin.
Gangplank
Try to countergank for gp and other weak lanes that will draw jg attention.
Galio
Ulti synergy is insane.
Kayle
Ulti synergy is insane.
Kassadin
HAHA you wanted that scuttle? If the enemy mid has a brain you have 0 prio for 30 minutes. Dodge kass games if you want to win/preserve your sanity.
Yuumi
Make Yuumi sit on you for a free win.
Sett
Great Ult Synergy
Malphite
Huge Teamfighting power
Diana
Diana is basically AP genderbent Xin.
Bard
Bards are always a coinflip whether they will save you or kill you.
Aurelion Sol
Great roaming /diving bot potential.
Draven
Strong snowballing champ similar to Xin, able to win the game before 10 mins and get an easy ff15.
Camille
Similar engage playstyles. Can shadow her in a sidelane to allow her to splitpush effectively.
Alistar
We go IN.
Maokai
Great gank setup.
Annie
Go mid when Annie has her passive ready for a free kill.
Illaoi
Kalista
Katarina
Gnar
Leona
Kog'Maw
Peel for Kog
Lulu
Lissandra
Huge gank setup.
Nasus
Let Nasus farm stacks alone, don't waste time ganking top.
Shen
My favorite champ to have on my team. Will get you out of any bad situation.
Yasuo
You have 2 knockups for yasuo to ult off of.
Karma
Morgana
Convince morg to black shield you instead of the adc.
Malzahar
Free kills whenever malz ult is up.
Irelia
Irelia has the same playstyle as Xin which can be shut down by enemy tanks building tabis+bramble.
When starting Blue side on the bottom left of the map, start Red Buff with E then clear Raptors with W leveled up second. Proceed to kill Gromp for a quick level 3 and look to see if top or mid are gankable. If not then continue clearing blue buff and wolves. It should be around 3:15 at this time which is perfect time to get top scuttle and look at top and mid lane to see if we have priority to fight anyone who dares to contest. Afterwards we consider going to bot scuttle if we don't think the enemy jg could have taken it. Otherwise just back and buy a serrated dirk or ironspike whip if possible because it gives the strongest early spike. After the first back run straight to krugs and clear upwards towards top.
Another clearing route that full clears the jungle healthily and gets bot scuttle that I found is to start red buff and then do blue buff and gromp for level 3. Try to gank mid or top or just do wolves then cross over to raptors and bot scuttle when it spawns. If you are quick you can do 5 camps before scuttle spawns. Then do the scuttle and gank bot or mid before finishing krugs and backing for boots + noonquiver or a whip.
objective control
Focus early dragons whenever possible. Try to get rift herald for first turret before 14 minutes when plates go down. Use herald on the last two plates because the turret has more armor the less plates that are left. Try to get vision of dragon 30 seconds before it spawns and call your team to it. Dragon Soul Preference for Xin Zhao is Infernal>Ocean>Mountain>Cloud.
Teamfighting
To teamfight as Xin Zhao you have to try and isolate the enemy carry by jumping on them and ulting the rest of the team away. Once you ult you have time to fight 1v1 against the enemy carry which should be easy with the power of this build. There are no carries that can fight you on their own, they need peel which will not happen in soloqueue
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