Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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 Vayne 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, Vayne sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Vayne perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vayne plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This change could signal that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vayne is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Vayne plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Vayne during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Vayne that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a pretty good companion for Vayne. By locking into the same side as Vayne, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Vayne and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Vayne. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Vayne players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vayne and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Vayne in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Vayne and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Vayne players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Vayne and Xin Zhao pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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