Brand with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Brand and Xin Zhao
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Brand Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Brand with Xin Zhao
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand 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 worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Brand perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Xin Zhao, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Xin Zhao does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Brand that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a decent ally for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 52.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Brand and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Xin Zhao together, you will not be providing your side much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Brand and Xin Zhao synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.6% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Xin Zhao with Brand are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.