Xin Zhao with Zed
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Zed
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Xin Zhao Zed Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Zed
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Xin Zhao Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Xin Zhao perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Zed does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Zed on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Zed is a terrible ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same side as Xin Zhao, he decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Xin Zhao and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Zed teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Xin Zhao and Zed synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take 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 sets players used for Xin Zhao and Zed pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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