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.
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 Zoe Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zoe sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Zoe perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe is an ally to Xin Zhao, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Zoe plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Zoe during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zoe that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a good ally for Zoe. By locking into the same team as Zoe, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 49.0%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Zoe and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Zoe. That means Zoe players don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Zoe and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Zoe in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Zoe and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Zoe players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zoe and Xin Zhao pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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