Leona with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Leona and Xin Zhao
based on 4,235 Leona with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Leona with Xin Zhao
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her 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 Leona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she gets a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she on average 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 protecting Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Leona that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, Xin Zhao is a decent ally for Leona. By being on the same team as Leona, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 53.7%. This signals that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Leona and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Leona and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your side much magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Leona and Xin Zhao synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 53.7% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona and Xin Zhao pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
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