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Xin Zhao Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 2,202 gamesUpdated

49.9%win rate0.1%pick0.9%ban

Who counters Xin Zhao

How to build Xin Zhao

Chainlaced Crushers→Statikk Shiv→Dusk and Dawn→Riftmaker

Chainlaced Crushers → Statikk Shiv → Dusk and Dawn → Riftmaker

55.8% win rate 10% of games 138 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph46% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite90%
Skills
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Three Talon Strike
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Wind Becomes Lightning
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Audacious Charge
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Crescent Guard
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Xin Zhao build →
49.9%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.7% over 4,555 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.9% over 2,202 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.8%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
0.9%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
51.0%under 22 min
49.6%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 25–30m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitM Xin ZhaovsZoe champion portraitM Zoe
2 / 13 / 3

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Statikk Shiv→Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

FlashCleanse|

Skills

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Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitM Xin ZhaovsGragas champion portraitM Gragas
11 / 12 / 10

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Statikk Shiv→Death's Dance→Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

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Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitM Xin ZhaovsEkko champion portraitM Ekko
18 / 11 / 7

Build

Immortal Path|Essence Reaver→Voltaic Cyclosword→Lord Dominik's Regards→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 49.9% win rate · 46% of games · 741 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 52.7% win rate · 6% of games · 93 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
PrecisionTriumphLegend: Alacrity
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite90%49.5%2,058 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash4%53.1%96 games

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

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers34%Immortal Path21%Armored Advance19%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 49.3% win rate

Xin Zhao build

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

  1. Statikk Shiv1st
  2. Dusk and Dawn2nd
  3. Riftmaker3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path60.0% win rate65 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Xin Zhao →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 2,240 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
33% · 49.5% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
20% · 54.4% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
18% · 50.6% win rate
Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
17% · 52.8% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 25.0% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
2% · 60.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Statikk Shiv›Dusk and Dawn+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 53.5% win rate · 43 games
  2. Statikk Shiv+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 30.6% win rate · 36 games
  3. Statikk Shiv›Dusk and Dawn+Immortal Path2% of games · 44.4% win rate · 36 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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