Amumu with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Amumu and Xin Zhao
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Amumu Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Xin Zhao
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he sees a moderate decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Amumu and Xin Zhao that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Amumu and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Amumu and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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