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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Xin Zhao Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nidalee helps Xin Zhao perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Nidalee, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nidalee supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Nidalee is a very bad companion for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, she drops their win rate by -6.4% to 44.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Nidalee that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when enlisting Nidalee teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Xin Zhao players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your other allies much support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Xin Zhao and Nidalee synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 44.5% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.5% winrate overall.
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