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 Briar Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Briar sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Briar perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, they gets a small increase in their full damage output. This difference may indicate that Xin Zhao provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, they usually takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Briar in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Briar that will 100% of the time be their #1 teammate. However, Xin Zhao is a very bad teammate for Briar. By playing on the same side as Briar, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Briar and Xin Zhao that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Briar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Briar and Xin Zhao together, you may not be giving your team very much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Briar in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Briar and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Briar players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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