Rammus with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Rammus and Xin Zhao
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Rammus Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Xin Zhao
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Rammus perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus is paired with Xin Zhao, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Xin Zhao supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Rammus in teamfights.
Synergies between Rammus and Xin Zhao
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Rammus that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Xin Zhao is a superb ally for Rammus. By locking into the same team as Rammus, he increases their win rate by 3.9% to 54.8%. This proves that there is a very strong bond between Rammus and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Rammus. That means Rammus players don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Rammus and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Rammus in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Rammus and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 54.8% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rammus and Xin Zhao pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.8% winrate overall.
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