Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
The Azir Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Azir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Azir perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Azir is an ally to Xin Zhao, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Azir is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Azir plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Azir during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Azir that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for Azir. By being on the same team as Azir, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.4%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Azir and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Azir. That means Azir players don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Azir players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Azir and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your other allies very much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Azir and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Azir players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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