Fizz's spells scale off Ability Power - consider getting items like Zhonya's Hourglass or Banshee's Veil against teams that have high burst threat - and items like Lich Bane or Rabadon's Deathcap if you think you can survive without the Health.
Since Fizz can move through units, find opportunities in lane to walk through minions and apply Seastone Trident's passive - following it up with the ability's active attack after a few seconds.
Fizz's ultimate ability, Chum the Waters, can be aimed at an enemy or towards the area where you think they'll be going.
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 Fizz 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, Fizz sees a large worsening in his 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 Fizz perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Fizz is paired with Xin Zhao, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Fizz is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Fizz plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Fizz in team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Fizz that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a good ally for Fizz. By locking into the same side as Fizz, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 54.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Fizz and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Fizz. That means Fizz players don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe 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.
Conversely, by aligning Fizz and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fizz in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Fizz and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Fizz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Fizz boasted an average winrate of 54.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.2% win rate overall.
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