Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her 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 Lissandra perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is an ally to Xin Zhao, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Xin Zhao provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Lissandra during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Xin Zhao is a good teammate for Lissandra. By playing on the same side as Lissandra, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Lissandra and Xin Zhao that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Lissandra players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Lissandra and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Lissandra to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Lissandra and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Lissandra and Xin Zhao pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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