Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
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 Braum 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, Braum sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Braum perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Braum is an ally to Xin Zhao, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Xin Zhao does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Braum is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Braum plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Braum in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Braum that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Braum. By being on the same side as Braum, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 51.7%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Braum and Xin Zhao that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Braum. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Braum players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Braum and Xin Zhao together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Braum to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Braum and Xin Zhao synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Braum boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Braum players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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