Xin Zhao with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Heimerdinger
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Xin Zhao Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Xin Zhao Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Heimerdinger helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Heimerdinger, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Heimerdinger does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical companion for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 50.5%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Xin Zhao and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be careful when lining up Heimerdinger allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Xin Zhao players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Xin Zhao and Heimerdinger together, you may not be granting your side enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 pair well with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Xin Zhao and Heimerdinger synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip 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 builds we have analyed for Xin Zhao and Heimerdinger pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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