Xin Zhao with Graves
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Graves
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Xin Zhao Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Graves
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Xin Zhao Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Graves, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Graves provides protection 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 Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Graves on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect ally for Xin Zhao that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Graves is a pretty good ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Graves has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you should be cautious when arranging Graves comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xin Zhao and Graves together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to synergize with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Graves synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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