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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 Naafiri 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, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is an ally to Xin Zhao, they observes a small decrease in their full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Naafiri in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Naafiri that will always be their #1 synergy. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a pretty good companion for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 51.6%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Naafiri and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Naafiri and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Naafiri and Xin Zhao synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 51.6% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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