Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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 Varus Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Varus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xin Zhao helps Varus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is paired with Xin Zhao, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Varus during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Varus that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a pretty good ally for Varus. By playing on the same side as Varus, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Varus and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Varus. That means Varus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Varus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Varus and Xin Zhao together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Varus and Xin Zhao synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Varus players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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