Xin Zhao with Pantheon
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Pantheon
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Xin Zhao Pantheon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Pantheon
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 Pantheon Will Play
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
Xin Zhao Pantheon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pantheon as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Pantheon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pantheon, 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 Pantheon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pantheon helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Pantheon, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Pantheon does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Pantheon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pantheon.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Pantheon on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Pantheon does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Pantheon?
There is no one best champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Pantheon is a very typical companion for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Pantheon that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pantheon has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players must be careful when arranging Pantheon allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xin Zhao and Pantheon together, you may not be giving your side enough AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Pantheon ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to synergize with Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Pantheon synergy build include Titanic Hydra, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Pantheon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Pantheon with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Pantheon with Xin Zhao are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.