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.
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
The Xin Zhao Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Master Yi helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Master Yi, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Master Yi provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Master Yi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Master Yi.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Master Yi on the same team, he often receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Xin Zhao that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Master Yi is a good teammate for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 52.9%. This proves that there is a good bond between Xin Zhao and Master Yi that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Master Yi has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when lining up Master Yi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Xin Zhao players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Xin Zhao and Master Yi together, you will not be providing your other allies very much utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao to pair well with Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Master Yi synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with most other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Master Yi with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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