Xin Zhao with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Vel'Koz
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Xin Zhao Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Xin Zhao Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Xin Zhao perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top synergy for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical teammate for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be cautious when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Xin Zhao players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xin Zhao and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Vel'Koz synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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