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.
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
The Xin Zhao Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Karma, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Karma helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Karma on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karma does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Karma is a not very good ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, she drops their win rate by -2.3% to 48.6%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Xin Zhao and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players must be careful when lining up Karma allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Karma together, you will not be giving your side much crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Xin Zhao and Karma synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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