Xin Zhao with Kalista
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Kalista
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Xin Zhao Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Xin Zhao Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Kalista, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kalista does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kalista.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Kalista on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao during team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no top companion for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Kalista is a terrible companion for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, she drops their win rate by -4.1% to 46.8%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kalista has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you need to be careful when lining up Kalista teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Kalista together, you will not be giving your other allies very much support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Kalista ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 to pair well with Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Kalista synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kalista than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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