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.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
The Xin Zhao Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Elise helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Elise, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Elise helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Elise on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Elise. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Elise.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Elise on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Elise does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Xin Zhao that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Elise is a decent companion for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, she raises their win rate by 1.4% to 52.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Xin Zhao and Elise that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Elise comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Xin Zhao players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xin Zhao and Elise together, you will not be providing your team much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Elise ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to synergize with Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Elise synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Elise than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Elise with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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