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.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
The Xin Zhao Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Amumu, he gets a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Amumu provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Amumu on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Amumu is a not very good teammate for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Xin Zhao and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Amumu has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when finding Amumu allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Xin Zhao players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Xin Zhao and Amumu together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Xin Zhao and Amumu synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Amumu with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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