Illaoi with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Illaoi and Xin Zhao
based on 2,049 Illaoi with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Xin Zhao
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a 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.
Illaoi Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi 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 fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Xin Zhao
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no one best ally for Illaoi that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Illaoi and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Illaoi players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Illaoi and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Illaoi and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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