Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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 LeBlanc 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, LeBlanc 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 LeBlanc perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When LeBlanc is paired with Xin Zhao, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when LeBlanc is played with 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.
Moreover, when LeBlanc plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting LeBlanc during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for LeBlanc that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for LeBlanc. By playing on the same side as LeBlanc, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between LeBlanc and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than LeBlanc. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, LeBlanc players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing LeBlanc and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your LeBlanc and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, LeBlanc players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for LeBlanc and Xin Zhao pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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