Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 Taliyah 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, Taliyah 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 decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Taliyah perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taliyah plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Xin Zhao helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Taliyah plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she often receives less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Taliyah during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a top-tier ally for Taliyah. By being on the same side as Taliyah, he improves their win rate by 3.0% to 51.8%. This proves that there is a very strong bond between Taliyah and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Taliyah. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Xin Zhao comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Taliyah and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your team a lot of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Taliyah and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 51.8% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Taliyah players should take 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 rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Xin Zhao with Taliyah are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.