Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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 Diana 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, Diana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Diana perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Diana is an ally to Xin Zhao, she gets a sizeable uptick in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Xin Zhao supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Diana is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Diana plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she on average receives much less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Diana in team fights.
There is no top synergy for Diana that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a good teammate for Diana. By playing on the same team as Diana, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Diana and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Diana. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Xin Zhao allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Diana 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.
Conversely, by aligning Diana and Xin Zhao together, you may not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Diana and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Diana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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