Akali with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Akali and Xin Zhao
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Akali Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Akali with Xin Zhao
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Xin Zhao Will Play
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.
Akali Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xin Zhao helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Akali that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Xin Zhao is a decent companion for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Akali and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Akali and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Akali and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Akali and Xin Zhao pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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