Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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 Elise 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, Elise sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Elise perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Elise is paired with Xin Zhao, she gets a sizeable uptick in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Xin Zhao provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Elise is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Elise plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she on average takes much less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Elise during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Elise that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a top-tier teammate for Elise. By being on the same side as Elise, he raises their win rate by 4.2% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a strong bond between Elise and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Elise. That means Elise players don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Elise and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Elise and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Elise incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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