Gragas with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Gragas and Xin Zhao
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Gragas Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Xin Zhao
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Xin Zhao, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Xin Zhao provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside 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.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal synergy for Gragas that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a superb ally for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is an important synergy between Gragas and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Gragas players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Gragas and Xin Zhao together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Gragas and Xin Zhao synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Gragas and Xin Zhao pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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