Xin Zhao
Computed from 110,579 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 49.5% | 0.3% |
| Jungle | 50.4% | 3.9% |
| Mid | 49.0% | 0.2% |
Xin Zhao is banned in about 1.0% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Xin Zhao's Jungle win rate is 0.4 percentage points above an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Xin Zhao is tracked in 3 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Jungle — its numbers in Top (0.3% pick rate) and Mid (0.2% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Xin Zhao's Jungle Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21 (including games from other ranks or the previous patch, as Emerald+ on this patch alone had too few), Xin Zhao's most common Jungle setup runs Flash and Smite with Conqueror, maxes W first, and builds Titanic Hydra, Black Cleaver, and Guardian Angel — 50.7% win rate over 34,860 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Smite
50.7%34,795 games - Runes
Conqueror + Inspiration
54.0%2,977 games - Skill priority W > Q > E 51.3%6,683 games
- Starter
Mosstomper Seedling
53.3%1,934 games - Boots
Mercury's Treads
53.0%13,165 games - First three items
Titanic Hydra → Black Cleaver → Guardian Angel
65.2%1,851 games
Xin Zhao's Jungle Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 50.7% | 4.3% | 9,624 | 0.09σ | No |
| Bronze | 49.7% | 3.9% | 10,749 | 0.06σ | No |
| Silver | 49.9% | 3.7% | 12,707 | 0.02σ | No |
| Gold | 50.7% | 3.7% | 14,368 | 0.13σ | No |
| Platinum | 50.9% | 3.9% | 16,114 | 0.19σ | No |
| Emerald | 50.5% | 4.2% | 13,397 | 0.10σ | No |
| Diamond | 51.5% | 4.6% | 13,603 | 0.34σ | No |
| Master | 50.6% | 4.5% | 6,840 | 0.13σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 51.2% | 4.9% | 469 | 0.16σ | No |
Xin Zhao's Jungle win rate ranges from 49.7% at Bronze to 51.5% at Diamond across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 1.8-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.34σ at Diamond and 0.06σ at Bronze, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Early game
- Threats
- None of the seven we track
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Xin Zhao in Jungle?
Champions That Counter Xin Zhao
| Champion | Win Rate vs Xin Zhao | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Taliyah |
55.6% | 1.18σ |
Singed |
55.6% | 1.17σ |
Teemo |
55.3% | 1.10σ |
Mordekaiser |
54.1% | 0.85σ |
Jax |
53.6% | 0.75σ |
Champions Xin Zhao Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Xin Zhao | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Maokai |
43.3% | 1.41σ |
Locke |
43.3% | 1.41σ |
Neeko |
43.6% | 1.34σ |
Qiyana |
44.1% | 1.23σ |
Camille |
44.3% | 1.18σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Xin Zhao: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 2-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.
Our Read on Xin Zhao
Reading the Numbers
Xin Zhao plays the same game he always has: a duelist jungler whose three-hit knockup and dash let him win fights before either side has finished building. That identity hasn't shifted through years of kit tweaks and visual updates, even as any single win-rate percentage moves from patch to patch depending on how strong early jungle pressure happens to be that season. He rewards a player who forces fights rather than one who waits for a lead to appear on its own.
When a Teammate Locks Xin Zhao
A teammate locking Xin Zhao is telling you the plan is to fight, not farm -- his three-hit passive and knockup exist to start skirmishes, not win a scaling race. Line up a lane he can gank early, since his own pressure fades once the game slows down and enemies build up resistances to a single burst combo. He punishes a team that waits for him: the longer nobody follows his lead into a fight, the less any of his early strength is worth by the time it matters.
When the Enemy Has Xin Zhao
Facing Xin Zhao means the danger window is early: expect dives and skirmishes around your jungler's pathing well before either side has core items, with an ultimate built to isolate whoever is easiest to burst down alone. Play tighter than usual in those opening exchanges and deny him a kill he can build on. Once the laning phase ends without him ahead, he has little left to threaten a team that outscales him -- the version of Xin Zhao worth worrying about only exists in the first part of the game.
Last reviewed 13 October 2026