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 Yuumi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yuumi, 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 Yuumi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yuumi helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Yuumi, he gets a measurable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Yuumi doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Yuumi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yuumi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yuumi.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Yuumi on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Yuumi does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Yuumi is a very bad teammate for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, she drops their win rate by -5.6% to 45.3%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Xin Zhao and Yuumi that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Yuumi has a lower difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Yuumi allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Xin Zhao players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xin Zhao and Yuumi together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of tankyness. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Yuumi ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to synergize with Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Xin Zhao and Yuumi synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Yuumi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yuumi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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