Xin Zhao with Talon
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Talon
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Xin Zhao Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Talon
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Xin Zhao Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Talon helps Xin Zhao perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Talon, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Talon does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Talon on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Talon does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top companion for Xin Zhao that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Talon is a relatively poor companion for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same side as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Xin Zhao and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players must be careful when lining up Talon teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Xin Zhao players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Xin Zhao and Talon together, you will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 to work well with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Xin Zhao and Talon synergy build include Wit's End, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Talon than with most other typical builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Xin Zhao and Talon pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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