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.
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
The Xin Zhao Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh 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 is paired with Thresh, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Thresh provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Thresh 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 Thresh.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Thresh on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Thresh is a very typical teammate for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Xin Zhao and Thresh that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Thresh has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players must be very careful when arranging Thresh comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xin Zhao and Thresh together, you probably will not be giving your side very much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to work well with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Xin Zhao and Thresh synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing alongside Thresh with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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