A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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 Vi 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, Vi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Vi perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vi tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, she gets a little drop in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Xin Zhao does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played with 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 alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Vi plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually 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 Vi in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Vi that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a relatively poor teammate for Vi. By playing on the same side as Vi, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Vi and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Vi. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Vi players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Vi and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your other teammates much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Vi to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Vi and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Vi combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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