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.
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
The Xin Zhao Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Kog'Maw supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Kog'Maw is a not very good companion for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 49.1%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Xin Zhao and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you should be very careful when finding Kog'Maw comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Kog'Maw together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 49.1% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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