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.
The Xin Zhao Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Samira helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Samira, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Samira does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Samira on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Samira.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Samira on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Samira does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Xin Zhao that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Samira is a not very good teammate for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Xin Zhao and Samira that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Samira has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you must be cautious when finding Samira comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Xin Zhao and Samira together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Samira ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to synergize with Samira during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Samira synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Samira than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Samira with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should equip 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 builds players chose for Xin Zhao and Samira pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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