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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Xin Zhao Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Azir helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Azir, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Azir does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Azir 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 alongside Azir.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Azir on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Azir does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will always be his best teammate. However, Azir is a not very good companion for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Xin Zhao and Azir that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Azir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Xin Zhao players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Azir together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much support. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Azir ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to pair well with Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Xin Zhao and Azir synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Azir than with many other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Azir with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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 runes that we analyzed for Xin Zhao and Azir pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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