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 Samira 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, Samira 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 drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Samira perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she observes a small decrease in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Samira during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Samira that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Samira. By playing on the same side as Samira, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Samira 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 Samira. That means Samira players don't need to be cautious when finding 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 work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Samira and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Samira in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Samira and Xin Zhao synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xin Zhao with Samira are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.