Katarina with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Katarina and Xin Zhao
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Katarina Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Xin Zhao
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Xin Zhao, she observes a little drop in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played 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 alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Xin Zhao
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no one best synergy for Katarina that will always be her top ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Katarina and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Katarina players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Katarina and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your side much support. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Katarina in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Katarina and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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