Thresh with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Thresh and Xin Zhao
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Thresh Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Xin Zhao
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a very large drop in his 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 Thresh perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Xin Zhao, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Thresh in teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Xin Zhao
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no top champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Thresh and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Thresh and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Thresh to work well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Thresh and Xin Zhao synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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