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.
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
The Xin Zhao Jayce synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jayce, 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 Jayce. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jayce helps Xin Zhao perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Jayce, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Jayce does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Jayce on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Jayce. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Jayce.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Jayce on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Jayce does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Jayce is a below average 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 proves that there is a bad synergy between Xin Zhao and Jayce that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Jayce has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you must be careful when finding Jayce teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Xin Zhao players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Xin Zhao and Jayce together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Jayce teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao to work well with Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Jayce synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Jayce than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing alongside Jayce with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 builds that we analyzed for Xin Zhao and Jayce pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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