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.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Xin Zhao Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vladimir helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Vladimir, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Vladimir does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Vladimir 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 Vladimir.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Vladimir on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Xin Zhao that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Vladimir is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Vladimir that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vladimir has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you must be cautious when arranging Vladimir 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 together, Xin Zhao players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Xin Zhao and Vladimir together, you may not be granting your other allies very much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Vladimir synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Conqueror, 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 that we analyzed for Xin Zhao and Vladimir pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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