Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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 Ahri Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Ahri perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ahri is an ally to Xin Zhao, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Ahri plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Ahri in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Ahri that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Ahri. By playing on the same team as Ahri, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Ahri and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Ahri. That means Ahri players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Ahri players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Ahri and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Ahri and Xin Zhao synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xin Zhao with Ahri are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.