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.
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
The Xin Zhao Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lissandra helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Lissandra, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Lissandra supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Lissandra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lissandra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lissandra.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Lissandra on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Lissandra is a very typical companion for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same side as Xin Zhao, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Lissandra that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lissandra has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when enlisting Lissandra teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Lissandra together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Lissandra 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 in order to pair well with Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Xin Zhao and Lissandra synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Lissandra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Lissandra with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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