Renekton vs Xin Zhao Counter Pick

Xin Zhao is rated 2 for difficulty, one of the more straightforward kits in the game, and that simplicity is what Renekton exploits at 58.6% across 222 games logged under patch 16.13.1—a modest sample pointing consistently one way.

His damage arrives on a count. Determination pays out on every third attack, Three Talon Strike knocks up on its third hit, and Audacious Charge is the gap closer that starts the sequence with bonus attack speed. Every step needs uninterrupted attack time. The 0.75-second stun on Ruthless Predator, extended once Fury passes 50, lands inside that count and resets it, and that single interaction is most of the matchup.

The stat picture supports it where a melee brawl is decided: 660 base health against 620, 69 base attack damage against 63, and a level-18 line of 2,547 health with 123.4 armor while Xin Zhao arrives at 2,422 and 109.8. Xin Zhao holds 175 attack range against 125, which gives him the first hit, and Crescent Guard scales damage with the target’s current health while knocking away anyone he has not recently challenged—a real threat once Dominus has inflated the health pool it reads from. The answer is timing rather than statistics: keep the second dash of Slice and Dice available to leave that radius, and open only above the Fury threshold.