Xin Zhao with Olaf
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Olaf
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Xin Zhao Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Xin Zhao Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Olaf, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could signal that Olaf does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Olaf on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Olaf is a below average companion for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Xin Zhao and Olaf that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Olaf has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be cautious when finding Olaf allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Xin Zhao and Olaf together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Xin Zhao in order to work well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Xin Zhao and Olaf synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Olaf than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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