Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa 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 worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Kai'Sa perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, she gets a little drop in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside 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 with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she often 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 covering Kai'Sa in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a good ally for Kai'Sa. By locking into the same side as Kai'Sa, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Kai'Sa and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kai'Sa players should expect to observe 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 Kai'Sa and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Kai'Sa and Xin Zhao synergy build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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