Xin Zhao with Riven
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Riven
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Xin Zhao Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Riven
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Xin Zhao Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Riven, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top ally for Xin Zhao that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, she increases their win rate by 0.2% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Xin Zhao and Riven that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be very careful when enlisting Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal 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 Riven together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Xin Zhao and Riven synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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