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.
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
The Xin Zhao Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Mordekaiser helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Mordekaiser, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Mordekaiser helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Mordekaiser on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Mordekaiser.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Mordekaiser on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Mordekaiser does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Mordekaiser is a great teammate for Xin Zhao. By being on the same side as Xin Zhao, he raises their win rate by 3.4% to 54.3%. This proves that there is a strong bond between Xin Zhao and Mordekaiser that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be careful when enlisting Mordekaiser teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Xin Zhao and Mordekaiser together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Mordekaiser ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to work well with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Xin Zhao and Mordekaiser synergy build consist of Titanic Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Xin Zhao included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Mordekaiser than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 54.3% when playing alongside Mordekaiser with these items in his kit.
To have the highest 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 builds players picked for Xin Zhao and Mordekaiser pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.3% winrate overall.
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