Bot · 228 games

Xerath

Bot · 28% of games Support · 19%Mid · 53%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (60%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−209 gold), and still wins 52%.

Win rate: 51.8%; ±6.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #21 of 52
Pick rate: 1.2%; ban 1.1%
Games: 228; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Xerath bot wins 51.8% of 228 ranked games, rank 21 of 52 bot champions (tier B). Most players finish Luden's Echo first, at about 11:12.

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 11:05 · 61% · 136 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:18 · 95% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 19:07 · 41% · 45 games

Item 3

Rabadon's Deathcap 25:27 · 69% · 18 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 28:24 · 20 of 67 games

Item 5 · late game

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 33:06 · 6 of 25 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Inspiration 25% of games · 59% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 100% of games · 52% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 85% of games · 54% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Arcanopulse first 100% of games · 52% wins Skill orders →

When Xerath wins

Best when games end at 25–30′

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

Ends before 25′49% wins40% of games · 91

Lasts 25′ or more53% wins60% of games · 136

Lanes

Watch out for Jhin, Yunara

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

What wins Xerath games

First Baron: 83% against 35%

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

First Baron 35% 83% +48

First tower 32% 69% +37

Rift Herald 37% 70% +33

First dragon 39% 67% +28

First Voidgrubs 44% 59% +15

First blood 45% 59% +14

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 control wards, fewer multikills

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

More control wards a game0.99 against 0.63 · +57%

Fewer multikills a game0.52 against 1.06 · −51%

Less damage to towers4350 against 7525 · −42%

More assists a game8.4 against 6.8 · +23%

Fewer deaths a game4.7 against 6.0 · −21%

About average: damage, minions, share of team damage, kill participation.

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 ~11:00

Item 2done ~17:42

Item 3done ~23:48

Item 4done ~28:48

Item 5done ~33:00

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Horizon Focus › Rabadon's Deathcap 75.0%12 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 58.3%12 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Horizon Focus › Shadowflame 58.3%12 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Horizon Focus › Shadowflame 22.2%9 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Stormsurge › Shadowflame 50.0%8 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Horizon Focus › Shadowflame › Void Staff 50.0%8 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

Rabadon's Deathcap 67%21

Void Staff 67%15

Horizon Focus 57%42

Shadowflame 54%46

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 40%5

Zhonya's Hourglass 40%5

Stormsurge 27%11

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

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion51.8%228

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:1852.5%217

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport54.1%194

Flash + Barrier37.5%16

Exhaust + Flash36.4%11

Skills

Max

E51.5%227

Start

E52.8%176

Start

E40.5%37

Hard lanes

Watch out for Jhin, Yunara

Easy lanes

Good into Ezreal, Tristana, Kai'Sa

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 5 of 6, still wins 3 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 (20)

Lucian 56% · 9

Aphelios 56% · 9

Kalista 22% · 9

Jinx 71% · 7

Caitlyn 29% · 7

Twitch 50% · 6

Viktor 50% · 6

Ziggs 50% · 6

Zeri 33% · 6

Kog'Maw 40% · 5

Xayah 60% · 5

Cassiopeia 40% · 5

Swain 80% · 5

Yasuo 80% · 5

Smolder 25% · 4

Sivir 25% · 4

Hwei 50% · 4

Ashe 33% · 3

Syndra 33% · 3

Vayne 67% · 3

Xerath vs Jhin · 28 games · Fair sample

Xerath does worse than expected here

36%winsexpected 54%

−833gold at 15′average −209

−10.5minions at 10′ahead or behind

4%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.11 a game

Gold lead against Jhin Xerath's average lead

Against Jhin, Xerath is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 68% of games, and still wins 16% of those. When ahead, Xerath wins 78%.

Ahead at 15′78% wins9 games

Behind at 15′16% wins19 games

Full Xerath vs Jhin page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Xerath games: Thresh

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

Yone56% · exp. 52% +516 games

Enemy support Trouble

Thresh32% · exp. 49% −1719 games

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 less than most bot laners

Before 14 minutes Xerath dies 2.1 times a game (average 2.7). 39% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 37% for the average bot laner. 16% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.1deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.7)

39%involve the enemy junglerabout average (37%)

84%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (87%)

44%with no teammate nearmore than average (38%)

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: 64% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 83% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 68% in your 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 bot laner

What kills Xerath

Kind of death

Xerath Average

Gank 39% (avg 37%)Collapse 46% (avg 50%)1-v-1 16% (avg 13%)

Who gets the kill

Xerath Average

Bot laner 47% (avg 50%)Jungler 25% (avg 21%)Support 16% (avg 16%)Mid laner 10% (avg 10%)Top laner 2% (avg 2%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

Xerath Peak Average bot laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 5:00. 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: 3.3 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.5 in your half of bot lane. Overall 1.1 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.5 K/D 164 / 355

Their half of bot lane 3.3 K/D 254 / 76

The bot-side river 2.9 K/D 47 / 16

Your jungle 0.6 K/D 13 / 21

Their jungle 4.5 K/D 18 / 4

Their half of mid 20.0 K/D 20 / 1

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 dragonsWorth knowingNear 29% of their team's dragon takes (average bot laner 33%). The team wins 63% when Xerath is there and 76% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 15:00 (average 15:00). Bot laners who get there by 14:00 win 54% against 47%; for Xerath it is 53% against 50%.

Xerath

What most Xerath players run

Best when games end at 25–30′

Watch out for Jhin, Yunara

First Baron: 83% against 35%

More control wards, fewer multikills

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

Watch out for Jhin, Yunara

Good into Ezreal, Tristana, Kai'Sa

Behind at 15 against 5 of 6, still wins 3 of them

Xerath does worse than expected here

Xerath does better than expected here

Xerath does better than expected here

Xerath does better than expected here

Xerath does better than expected here

Xerath does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Xerath games: Thresh

Teammates that change Xerath's games

Dies less than most bot laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Xerath

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

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

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

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