Xin Zhao with Aphelios
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Aphelios
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Xin Zhao Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Aphelios
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.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Xin Zhao Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xin Zhao sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Aphelios 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Aphelios on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal synergy for Xin Zhao that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Aphelios is a terrible ally for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xin Zhao and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Aphelios synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Xin Zhao and Aphelios pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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