Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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 K'Sante Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps K'Sante perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante is an ally to Xin Zhao, they gets a small decrease in their total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when K'Sante plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, they on average receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting K'Sante during teamfights.
There is no top companion for K'Sante that will always be their top ally. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 46.6%. This shows that there is only a small bond between K'Sante and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing K'Sante and Xin Zhao together, you may not be giving your team very much utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your K'Sante and Xin Zhao synergy build include Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three great items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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