Xin Zhao with Irelia
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Irelia
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Xin Zhao Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Xin Zhao Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Irelia, he gets a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Irelia on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect synergy for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Irelia is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, she decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 50.2%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Xin Zhao and Irelia that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be cautious when arranging Irelia allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Xin Zhao players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xin Zhao and Irelia together, you will not be giving your other allies much utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Xin Zhao and Irelia synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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