Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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 Warwick 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, Warwick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Warwick perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Warwick is paired with Xin Zhao, he sees a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Warwick plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Warwick in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Warwick that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Warwick. By being on the same side as Warwick, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.9%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Warwick and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Warwick. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xin Zhao comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Warwick players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Warwick and Xin Zhao together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Warwick in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Warwick and Xin Zhao synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Titanic Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Warwick combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Xin Zhao with Warwick are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.