Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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 Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn 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 decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, she observes a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Caitlyn during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a pretty good companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Caitlyn and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Caitlyn and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Caitlyn and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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