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.
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
The Xin Zhao Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Illaoi helps Xin Zhao perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Illaoi, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This could indicate that Illaoi does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Illaoi on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Illaoi is a very typical teammate for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Xin Zhao and Illaoi that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Illaoi has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be cautious when lining up Illaoi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xin Zhao and Illaoi together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to synergize with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Xin Zhao and Illaoi synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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