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 Yone Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yone sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Yone perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yone is paired with Xin Zhao, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yone is played together with Xin Zhao 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 Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Yone plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Yone in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Yone that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for Yone. By locking into the same team as Yone, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.9%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Yone and Xin Zhao that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Yone. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Yone players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Yone and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be granting your team much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Yone to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Yone and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Death's Dance, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Yone players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xin Zhao with Yone are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.