If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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 Lux 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, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Lux perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux is paired with Xin Zhao, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Lux plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Lux during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Lux that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Lux. By being on the same team as Lux, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Lux and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Lux. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xin Zhao teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Lux and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Lux to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Lux and Xin Zhao synergy build include Horizon Focus, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Lux and Xin Zhao pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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