How to win the jungle race as Xin Zhao against Udyr · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Xin Zhao's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Udyr.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Respect Udyr | Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line — Xin Zhao has no answer to that at level 1. Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight on their half of the map too, so skip the level-1 crossing and answer the pressure cross-map. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Respect Udyr | Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight, and Xin Zhao has no clean answer to it on the second camp — Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage, and give up the second buff rather than the kill. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Udyr | The window at the opening scuttle belongs to Udyr: four stance points are online and their awakened trades hit their hardest window. Your own line is real — the full knock-up combo with W slow is among the top three level-3 duels — but it arrives second here. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage, then give up the level-3 river fight. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Udyr — Path Opposite | Do not trade windows with Udyr here: he farms 4-5 at speed and takes any fight near a wall, since Blazing Stampede needs only a straight line. Path opposite, keep your entrances warded, and answer the map, not the champion. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Even Ult Window | Awakened stance rotations on four points hit harder than most actual ultimates, and Crescent Guard answers it almost exactly. Decide this one on setup — vision, numbers and cooldowns — not on the ultimate comparison. |
| First Item Spike | Sundered Sky / Eclipse Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive damage, health, and sustain multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or isolated targets. Udyr's first item is where the awakened stance rotations stop being a heavy trade and start being a kill. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Udyr Outscales | You lose the long game outright: he is an awakened-stance brawler with sustain, damage and a stun on a short timer, and no build path of yours answers that. Convert every early lead into an objective immediately. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp utilizing your Q resets and passive to maximize early clear speed and health. Udyr clears extremely fast with stance swaps and shields himself through it, so he is rarely below full health.
Ranked by the race windows in Xin Zhao's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Xin Zhao vs Udyr 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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Udyr pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Udyr pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Xin Zhao is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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