Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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 Orianna 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, Orianna 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 drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Orianna perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is paired with Xin Zhao, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with 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 synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Orianna in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Orianna that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent ally for Orianna. By playing on the same team as Orianna, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Orianna and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Orianna. That means Orianna players don't need to be very careful when arranging Xin Zhao allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Orianna players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Orianna and Xin Zhao together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Orianna and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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