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 Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Volibear helps Xin Zhao perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Volibear, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Volibear does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Volibear 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 Volibear.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Volibear on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Volibear does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Volibear is a very typical teammate for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Xin Zhao and Volibear that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Volibear has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be careful when lining up Volibear comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Xin Zhao players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Xin Zhao and Volibear together, you may not be providing your side very much utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to pair well with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Xin Zhao and Volibear synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Volibear than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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 sets players used for Xin Zhao and Volibear pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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