Xin Zhao with Katarina
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Katarina
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Xin Zhao Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Xin Zhao Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Katarina, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Katarina on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.5%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Xin Zhao and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you need to be very careful when finding Katarina comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Xin Zhao players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Xin Zhao and Katarina synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Xin Zhao and Katarina pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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