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 Vex synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vex, 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 Vex. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vex helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Vex, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Vex helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Vex 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 Vex.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Vex on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vex does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in team fights.
There is no top ally for Xin Zhao that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Vex is a very typical companion for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same side as Xin Zhao, they raises their win rate by 0.9% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Vex that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vex has a lower difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players don't need to be very careful when finding Vex allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Xin Zhao players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Vex together, you may not be granting your team much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Vex teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to pair well with Vex during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Vex synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vex than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vex with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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