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.
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
The Xin Zhao Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Gragas, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Gragas helps provide 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 Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Gragas on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gragas does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Gragas is a very typical teammate for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Gragas that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you must be very careful when arranging Gragas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Xin Zhao players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Gragas together, you will not be granting your other allies enough utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to synergize with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Gragas synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 51.1% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest chance 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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