Support · 151 games · NA

Xerath

Support · 24% of games Bot · 25%Mid · 51%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (52%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+389 gold).

Win rate: 45.7%; ±7.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #50 of 56
Pick rate: 1.5%; ban 1.8%
Games: 151; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Xerath support wins 45.7% of 151 ranked games in NA, rank 50 of 56 support champions (tier D). Most players finish Luden's Echo first, at about 13:00.

The build at a glance

What most Xerath players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Luden's Echo 13:04 · 89% · 132 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 15:54 · 86% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 23:42 · 49% · 47 games

Item 3 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 32:48 · 9 of 32 games

Runes

First Strike · Inspiration + Sorcery 19% of games · 31% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 89% of games · 43% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 77% of games · 40% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Arcanopulse first 97% of games · 45% wins Skill orders →

When Xerath wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′44% wins27% of games · 41

Lasts 25′ or more46% wins73% of games · 110

Lanes

Good into Nami

Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Xerath games

First tower: 65% against 21%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First tower 21% 65% +43

First Baron 31% 70% +39

First dragon 33% 56% +23

Rift Herald 38% 56% +18

First blood 38% 54% +16

First Voidgrubs 44% 48% +5

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Xerath plays

More damage, more share of team damage

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More damage a minute737 against 367 · +101%

More share of team damage20% against 11% · +90%

More solo kills a game0.4 against 0.2 · +81%

More minions a minute1.9 against 1.1 · +70%

More multikills a game0.15 against 0.10 · +50%

About average: time spent dead.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~13:12

Item 2done ~23:48

Item 3done ~31:12

Item 4done ~39:12

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 66.7%6 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Horizon Focus › Shadowflame 25.0%4 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Horizon Focus › Rabadon's Deathcap 33.3%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Shadowflame 71%17

Horizon Focus 38%8

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion42.5%134

Health Potion77.8%9

Control Ward66.7%6

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~15:5446.9%130

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~13:1216.7%6

Boots of Swiftness ~18:3066.7%3

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal40.2%117

Exhaust + Flash62.1%29

Flash + Ignite80.0%5

Skills

Max

E45.2%146

Max

E66.7%3

Start

E43.5%46

Start

E35.6%45

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Nami

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 2 of 2, wins 1 of them

Expected: what Xerath's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (18)

Karma 78% · 9

Nautilus 43% · 7

Senna 71% · 7

Blitzcrank 43% · 7

Lulu 57% · 7

Soraka 29% · 7

Leona 17% · 6

Alistar 50% · 6

Yuumi 40% · 5

Rakan 20% · 5

Seraphine 50% · 4

Bard 25% · 4

Sona 0% · 4

Braum 50% · 4

Janna 25% · 4

Lux 50% · 4

Tahm Kench 33% · 3

Zyra 33% · 3

Xerath vs Nami · 14 games · Early read

Xerath does better than expected here

79%winsexpected 44%

+472gold at 15′average +389

+3.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

7%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.07 a game

Gold lead against Nami Xerath's average lead

Against Nami, Xerath is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 71% of games and wins 90% of those. When behind, Xerath wins 50%.

Ahead at 15′90% wins10 games

Behind at 15′50% wins4 games

Full Xerath vs Nami page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most supports

Before 14 minutes Xerath dies 2.2 times a game (average 2.5). 42% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 45% for the average support. 11% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.2deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.5)

42%involve the enemy junglerless than average (45%)

89%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

25%with no teammate nearabout average (25%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Xerath dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 52% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 59% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 42% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Xerath

Kind of death

Xerath Average

Gank 42% (avg 45%)Collapse 47% (avg 45%)1-v-1 11% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Xerath Average

Bot laner 43% (avg 42%)Jungler 22% (avg 24%)Support 14% (avg 15%)Mid laner 16% (avg 15%)Top laner 3% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Xerath Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Xerath; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Xerath wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.5 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.7 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 61 / 177

Their half of bot lane 1.5 K/D 112 / 73

The bot-side river 0.6 K/D 20 / 33

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 7 / 22

Their half of mid 2.8 K/D 14 / 5

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 4 / 14

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Xerath wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 45% of their team's dragon takes (average support 50%). The team wins 65% when Xerath is there and 64% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 13:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 52% against 44%; for Xerath it is 45% against 47%.

Xerath

What most Xerath players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Good into Nami

First tower: 65% against 21%

More damage, more share of team damage

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into Nami

Ahead at 15 against 2 of 2, wins 1 of them

Xerath does better than expected here

Xerath does worse than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Xerath's games

Dies about as often as most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Xerath

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid