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 Xin Zhao Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Briar, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Briar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Briar on the same side, he usually receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Briar is a not very good ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, they lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Xin Zhao and Briar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Briar has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Briar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Xin Zhao and Briar together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to synergize with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Xin Zhao and Briar synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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