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Xin Zhao Build

Jungle Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 38,997 gamesUpdated

50.2%win rate1.8%pick0.9%ban

Who counters Xin Zhao

Every Jungle matchup for Xin Zhao, ranked →

How to build Xin Zhao

Plated Steelcaps→Titanic Hydra→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Titanic Hydra → Black Cleaver → Death's Dance

57.1% win rate 21% of games 5,002 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceInspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear46% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite99%
Skills
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Three Talon Strike
314151718
Wind Becomes Lightning
24578
Audacious Charge
19101213
Crescent Guard
61116
StartGustwalker HatchlingGustwalker Hatchling
Full Xin Zhao build →
50.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.9% over 64,707 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.2% over 38,997 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.7%at Emerald+
1.8%pick rate
0.9%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 4 last patch
46.8%under 22 min
50.7%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitJ Xin ZhaovsNidalee champion portraitJ Nidalee
2 / 6 / 3

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingSlightly Magical Footwear|Titanic Hydra

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

WEQWWRWEWQR
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitJ Xin ZhaovsKha'Zix champion portraitJ Kha'Zix
5 / 5 / 10

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Titanic Hydra→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance→Guardian Angel

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EWQWWRWQWQRQQEEREE
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitJ Xin ZhaovsTaliyah champion portraitJ Taliyah
3 / 6 / 12

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Titanic Hydra→Black Cleaver→Sterak's Gage

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WEQWWRWQWQRQQEEREE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.9% win rate · 46% of games · 17,905 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.8% win rate · 16% of games · 6,084 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 99% of games, 50.2% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps51%Mercury's Treads37%Slightly Magical Footwear7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.9% win rate
Jungle pet
Gustwalker Hatchling60%
6 of 10 recent games started Gustwalker Hatchling

Xin Zhao build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Black Cleaver1st
  2. Titanic Hydra2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path59.2% win rate2,681 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Xin Zhao →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 39,980 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
50% · 50.9% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
36% · 52.3% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
7% · 39.6% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
2% · 52.5% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
2% · 41.7% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 43.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Titanic Hydra›Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 42.8% win rate · 1,681 games
  2. Black Cleaver›Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 39.5% win rate · 1,325 games
  3. Titanic Hydra›Black Cleaver+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 44.8% win rate · 1,110 games
  4. Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 36.1% win rate · 1,048 games
  5. Black Cleaver›Titanic Hydra›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 59.7% win rate · 1,046 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Xin Zhao against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Xin Zhao's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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