Annie with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Annie and Xin Zhao
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Annie Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Annie with Xin Zhao
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Annie perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This may indicate that Xin Zhao does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she usually takes 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 Annie in teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal ally for Annie that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Annie and Xin Zhao that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be careful when enlisting Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Annie players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Annie and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be granting your side enough engage potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Annie to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Annie and Xin Zhao synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Annie players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xin Zhao with Annie are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.