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.
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
The Xin Zhao Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lee Sin helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Lee Sin, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Lee Sin helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Lee Sin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Xin Zhao that will always be his ideal ally. However, Lee Sin is a terrible ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Xin Zhao and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you should be careful when arranging Lee Sin comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao to synergize with Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao and Lee Sin synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Lee Sin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Xin Zhao players 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 we have analyed for Xin Zhao and Lee Sin pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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