Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Irelia during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Irelia that will always be her ideal synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for Irelia. By playing on the same side as Irelia, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Irelia and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Irelia and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Irelia and Xin Zhao synergy build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Irelia and Xin Zhao pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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