Xin Zhao with Gnar
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Gnar
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Xin Zhao Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Xin Zhao Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Gnar, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Gnar does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Gnar on the same team, 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 alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Gnar on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Gnar is a below average ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same side as Xin Zhao, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.9%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you should be careful when lining up Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xin Zhao and Gnar together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xin Zhao to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Gnar synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Xin Zhao and Gnar pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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