Shyvana with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Shyvana and Xin Zhao
based on 378 Shyvana with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Xin Zhao
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Xin Zhao provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, 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 Shyvana plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, she usually receives much less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Xin Zhao
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no perfect companion for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a terrible teammate for Shyvana. By playing on the same side as Shyvana, he decreases their win rate by -3.9% to 45.2%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Shyvana and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Shyvana and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Shyvana and Xin Zhao synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 45.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Shyvana and Xin Zhao pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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