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.
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
The Xin Zhao Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 Sivir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sivir helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Sivir, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Sivir provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Sivir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sivir.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Sivir on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Sivir does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Xin Zhao that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Sivir is a very bad teammate for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same side as Xin Zhao, she decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Xin Zhao and Sivir that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sivir has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when finding Sivir teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Xin Zhao and Sivir together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Sivir teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to pair well with Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Xin Zhao and Sivir synergy build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Sivir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sivir with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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