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.
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
The Xin Zhao Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Syndra helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Syndra, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Syndra doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Syndra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Syndra.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Syndra on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Syndra does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Syndra is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Xin Zhao and Syndra that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Syndra has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be cautious when lining up Syndra teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Syndra together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Syndra ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to work well with Syndra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Syndra synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Syndra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Syndra with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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