Talon with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Talon and Xin Zhao
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Talon Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Talon with Xin Zhao
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Talon perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xin Zhao supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Talon in team fights.
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Is Talon better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Talon that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Talon. By locking into the same side as Talon, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Talon and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Talon. That means Talon players don't need to be very careful when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Talon players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Talon and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Talon and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Talon used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Talon players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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