Xin Zhao with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Caitlyn
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Xin Zhao Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Xin Zhao Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Caitlyn helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Caitlyn, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could signal that Caitlyn does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no top champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Caitlyn is a very typical companion for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Xin Zhao and Caitlyn that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be careful when enlisting Caitlyn comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xin Zhao and Caitlyn together, you will not be granting your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Xin Zhao and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Caitlyn than with most other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Caitlyn with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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