How to win the jungle race as Lillia against Xin Zhao · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Lillia's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Xin Zhao.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Xin Zhao | Xin Zhao out-classes you at the first buff — Three Talon Strike's knock-up plus passive healing wins the first buff-pit duel, and the W challenge into Three Talon Strike knock-up chains you down before you can answer. Skip the level-1 crossing, full-clear away from them, and trade map pressure instead of health. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Xin Zhao | Do not be seen on the second camp: the W challenge into Three Talon Strike knock-up chains you down before you can answer. On top of that, Wind Becomes Lightning (W) challenge poke starts trades they finish for free, so they get there first. Respect the river bushes and disengage before the third Q hit lands. Refuse the level-2 skirmish and farm the opposite quadrant until your spike lands. |
| Level 3 Route | Danger — Avoid Xin Zhao | Hard no-contest for Lillia at level 3: the full knock-up combo with W slow is among the top three level-3 duels, and the W challenge into Three Talon Strike knock-up chains you down before you can answer. Respect the river bushes and disengage before the third Q hit lands. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Danger — Avoid Xin Zhao | Xin Zhao owns 4-5 outright. He dives lanes through 4-5, since Audacious Charge into the knock-up needs no setup at all, so treat every crossing as theirs and take the camps they are furthest from. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Xin's R | Xin Zhao wins the breakpoint outright — Crescent Guard makes the 1v1 literal, and Crescent Guard isolates you from your team and wins the resulting 1v1. Fight him with numbers before the R cast or poke the duel down from range, then trade objectives cross-map until your items land. |
| First Item Spike | Liandry's Spike | Liandry's turns your dust and burn into real damage, and your kite-duel into a genuine threat even against bruisers. Your clear becomes self-sustaining health-wise and absurd tempo-wise. Force Xin Zhao to contest you at camps where your orbit has room, and melt them when they try. Xin Zhao's first item is a sharp jump — the knock-up combo goes from a strong trade to a kill on most junglers. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Lillia Favoured — Wins Late | The late game is yours. Remember what Xin Zhao still is at full build — he isolates one target with Crescent Guard and wins the 1v1 he just created — and take the fights that do not let it matter. |
Start the buff that lets you chain into raptors early — your AoE Q wants the chaos camps. Xin Zhao's start side matters little; your clear wins the race regardless, so path for your own efficiency. Xin Zhao clears fast and heals off Determination, so he reaches three healthy and looking for the first fight.
Ranked by the race windows in Lillia's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Lillia vs Xin Zhao report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Xin Zhao pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Xin Zhao pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Lillia is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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