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 Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Fiddlesticks perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks is paired with Xin Zhao, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xin Zhao helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Fiddlesticks plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Fiddlesticks in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Fiddlesticks that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Fiddlesticks. By being on the same side as Fiddlesticks, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Fiddlesticks and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Fiddlesticks. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Fiddlesticks and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of engage. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Fiddlesticks and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Fiddlesticks players should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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