Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
The Aatrox Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Aatrox perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Aatrox during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.6%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Aatrox and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Aatrox and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your other allies very much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Aatrox and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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