Darius with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Darius and Xin Zhao
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Darius Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Darius with Xin Zhao
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Understand How Xin Zhao Will Play
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.
Darius Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Darius perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together 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 synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Darius in teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal synergy for Darius that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Darius. By locking into the same team as Darius, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.8%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Darius and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Darius. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Darius and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be granting your team much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Darius and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 49.8% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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