To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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 Syndra 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, Syndra 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 decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Syndra perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Syndra is paired with Xin Zhao, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Syndra 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 with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Syndra plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Syndra during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Syndra that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Syndra. By being on the same team as Syndra, he increases their win rate by 1.7% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Syndra and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Syndra. That means Syndra 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 fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Syndra and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Syndra and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 50.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Syndra players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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