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.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The Xin Zhao Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zoe helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Zoe, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Zoe supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Zoe on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zoe.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Zoe on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zoe does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Zoe is a not very good ally for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, she decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Zoe that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zoe has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you should be careful when enlisting Zoe comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Xin Zhao players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Zoe together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zoe teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Xin Zhao to synergize with Zoe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao and Zoe synergy build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zoe than with many other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Zoe with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against 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. Of all the runes players chose for Xin Zhao and Zoe pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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