Xin Zhao with Akali
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Akali
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Xin Zhao Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Akali
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Xin Zhao Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xin Zhao sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Xin Zhao perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Akali doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Akali on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal synergy for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Xin Zhao and Akali that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Akali has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when lining up Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Xin Zhao and Akali together, you will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to work well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Xin Zhao and Akali synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Xin Zhao and Akali pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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