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.
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
The Xin Zhao Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kindred helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Kindred, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Kindred helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Kindred on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Kindred is a terrible teammate for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, they drops their win rate by -4.3% to 46.6%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kindred has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you must be careful when enlisting Kindred allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Xin Zhao players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Xin Zhao and Kindred together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to work well with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Kindred synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Xin Zhao used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kindred than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 46.6% when playing alongside Kindred with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
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