Xin Zhao with K'Sante
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and K'Sante
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Xin Zhao K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Xin Zhao K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that K'Sante helps Xin Zhao perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with K'Sante, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that K'Sante helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with K'Sante 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 alongside K'Sante.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with K'Sante on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao during team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no one best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, K'Sante is a terrible ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, they lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Xin Zhao and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be cautious when lining up K'Sante teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and K'Sante together, you may not be providing your team a lot of crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to pair well with K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Xin Zhao and K'Sante synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 46.6% when playing alongside K'Sante with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Xin Zhao players 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 runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
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