Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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 Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Poppy perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Xin Zhao helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually receives less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Poppy in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Poppy that will always be her top synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Poppy. By locking into the same side as Poppy, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Poppy and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Poppy and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other allies much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Poppy to work well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Poppy and Xin Zhao synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Poppy and Xin Zhao pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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