Bard with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Bard and Xin Zhao
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Bard Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Bard with Xin Zhao
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no perfect companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Bard and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when arranging Xin Zhao comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Bard and Xin Zhao synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xin Zhao with Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.