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.
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
The Xin Zhao Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Warwick helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Warwick, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Warwick helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Warwick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Warwick.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Warwick on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Warwick does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Warwick is a not very good teammate for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Xin Zhao and Warwick that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Warwick has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players must be cautious when lining up Warwick comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Xin Zhao and Warwick together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Warwick ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to synergize with Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao and Warwick 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 did much better as an ally of Warwick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Warwick with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take 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 picked for Xin Zhao and Warwick pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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