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Xin Zhao Build

Support Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 649 gamesUpdated

43.1%win rate0.0%pick0.9%ban

Who counters Xin Zhao

  • Lux champion portraitLux44.6%56 games

How to build Xin Zhao

Plated Steelcaps→Voltaic Cyclosword→Eclipse→The Collector

Plated Steelcaps → Voltaic Cyclosword → Eclipse → The Collector

50.0% win rate 2% of games 8 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph54% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite60%
Skills
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Three Talon Strike
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Wind Becomes Lightning
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Audacious Charge
19101213
Crescent Guard
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Xin Zhao build →

Best ADCs for Xin Zhao

Who Xin Zhao has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

43.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 42.9% over 1,366 gamesPatch 26.21: 43.1% over 649 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
0.9%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
41.1%under 22 min
47.0%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 portraitS Xin Zhao+Jinx champion portraitB JinxvsMiss Fortune champion portraitS Miss Fortune+Jhin champion portraitB Jhin
3 / 9 / 2

Build

Celestial OppositionBoots|Youmuu's Ghostblade

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EWQWWRWE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitS Xin Zhao+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'SavsLeBlanc champion portraitS LeBlanc+Caitlyn champion portraitB Caitlyn
8 / 6 / 16

Build

Celestial OppositionMercury's Treads|Statikk Shiv→Dusk and Dawn→Eclipse

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EWQWWRWQWQRQQEE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Xin Zhao champion portraitS Xin Zhao+Pantheon champion portraitB PantheonvsLulu champion portraitS Lulu+Jhin champion portraitB Jhin
11 / 7 / 13

Build

BloodsongBoots|Serpent's Fang→Voltaic Cyclosword→Edge of Night

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EWQWWRWEWEREEQ

Runes

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

Most popular 47.4% win rate · 54% of games · 234 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 30.0% win rate · 9% of games · 40 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
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 + Ignite60%41.3%397 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash29%46.1%193 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps37%Berserker's Greaves18%Mercury's Treads15%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 45.8% win rate
Support item
Bloodsong53%Celestial Opposition23%Solstice Sleigh13%
Bloodsong most often · 40.7% win rate

Xin Zhao build

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

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Xin Zhao Support is at 656 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Xin Zhao →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 656 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
36% · 46.0% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
17% · 40.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
15% · 44.8% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
11% · 46.4% win rate
BootsBoots
9% · 42.4% win rate
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. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Xin Zhao's average instead of 50%.

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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