Xin Zhao with Bard
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Bard
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Xin Zhao Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Bard
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Xin Zhao Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Bard, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Bard provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Bard on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Bard is a good teammate for Xin Zhao. By being on the same side as Xin Zhao, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Xin Zhao and Bard that results in them performing better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you must be careful when arranging Bard teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Xin Zhao players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Bard together, you will not be granting your team much AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao and Bard synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Xin Zhao are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.