Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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 Viktor 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, Viktor sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Viktor perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Viktor during team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Viktor that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a pretty good companion for Viktor. By locking into the same side as Viktor, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Viktor and Xin Zhao that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means Viktor players don't need to be cautious when arranging Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Viktor and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your side enough crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Viktor and Xin Zhao synergy build include Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 52.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Viktor players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Viktor and Xin Zhao pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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