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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Xin Zhao Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ziggs helps Xin Zhao perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Ziggs, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Ziggs provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Ziggs on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Ziggs is a relatively poor teammate for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same side as Xin Zhao, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Ziggs that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Ziggs has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you must be very careful when arranging Ziggs comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xin Zhao and Ziggs together, you may not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to pair well with Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Xin Zhao and Ziggs synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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