Support · 159 games

Xerath

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

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (58%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+397 gold).

Win rate: 47.2%; ±7.8 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #44 of 54
Pick rate: 0.8%; ban 1.1%
Games: 159; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Xerath support wins 47.2% of 159 ranked games, rank 44 of 54 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 13:10 · 89% · 139 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 16:00 · 81% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 23:42 · 51% · 48 games

Item 3 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 32:48 · 6 of 28 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Precision 19% of games · 45% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 90% of games · 46% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 79% of games · 46% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Arcanopulse first 99% of games · 47% 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% wins31% of games · 50

Lasts 25′ or more48% wins66% of games · 105

Lanes

Watch out for Blitzcrank, Nautilus

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

What wins Xerath games

First tower: 70% against 19%

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

First tower 19% 70% +51

First Baron 29% 77% +48

Rift Herald 35% 63% +28

First dragon 36% 56% +20

First blood 38% 58% +20

First Voidgrubs 46% 49% +4

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 minute728 against 361 · +102%

More share of team damage20% against 10% · +90%

More multikills a game0.16 against 0.09 · +78%

More minions a minute1.8 against 1.1 · +67%

More solo kills a game0.3 against 0.2 · +67%

About average: time spent dead, deaths.

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 ~13:00

Item 2done ~23:48

Item 3done ~31:12

Item 4done ~38:18

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Shadowflame › Sorcerer's Shoes › Rabadon's Deathcap 50.0%4 games

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

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 66.7%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%21

Horizon Focus 58%12

Stormsurge 40%5

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 Potion46.2%143

Health Potion75.0%8

Control Ward33.3%6

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~16:0050.4%129

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~13:0030.0%10

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal46.0%126

Exhaust + Flash56.0%25

Flash + Ignite40.0%5

Skills

Max

E47.5%158

Max

E0.0%1

Start

E51.7%60

Start

E38.8%49

Hard lanes

Watch out for Blitzcrank, Nautilus

Easy lanes

Good into Nami

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 3 of 3, 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 (19)

Lulu 67% · 9

Yuumi 67% · 9

Thresh 38% · 8

Bard 13% · 8

Janna 43% · 7

Senna 57% · 7

Karma 83% · 6

Leona 17% · 6

Lux 40% · 5

Alistar 60% · 5

Rell 100% · 5

Seraphine 20% · 5

Sona 25% · 4

Soraka 50% · 4

Braum 50% · 4

Milio 50% · 4

Renata Glasc 33% · 3

Zyra 67% · 3

Tahm Kench 33% · 3

Xerath vs Blitzcrank · 12 games · Early read

Xerath does worse than expected here

33%winsexpected 46%

+226gold at 15′average +397

+3.0minions at 10′ahead or behind

25%in on first bloodsolo kills ±0.00 a game

Gold lead against Blitzcrank Xerath's average lead

Against Blitzcrank, Xerath is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 50% of games and wins 33% of those. When behind, Xerath wins 33%.

Ahead at 15′33% wins6 games

Behind at 15′33% wins6 games

Full Xerath vs Blitzcrank 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

Lee Sin59% · exp. 48% +1117 games

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 2.6 times a game (average 2.6). 39% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 47% for the average support. 12% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.6deaths per game before 14′about average (2.6)

39%involve the enemy junglerless than average (47%)

88%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

25%with no teammate nearabout average (26%)

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: 51% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 60% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 37% 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 support

What kills Xerath

Kind of death

Xerath Average

Gank 39% (avg 47%)Collapse 49% (avg 43%)1-v-1 12% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Xerath Average

Bot laner 44% (avg 41%)Jungler 22% (avg 25%)Support 14% (avg 14%)Mid laner 16% (avg 15%)Top laner 2% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 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: 1.3 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 64 / 219

Their half of bot lane 1.3 K/D 124 / 92

The bot-side river 0.6 K/D 20 / 36

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 8 / 25

Your half of mid 0.6 K/D 8 / 14

Their half of mid 3.4 K/D 17 / 5

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 47% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 66% when Xerath is there and 66% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 12:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Xerath it is 50% against 38%.

Xerath

What most Xerath players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Watch out for Blitzcrank, Nautilus

First tower: 70% against 19%

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

Watch out for Blitzcrank, Nautilus

Good into Nami

Ahead at 15 against 3 of 3, wins 1 of them

Xerath does worse than expected here

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, 5:00–7:00 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 jungle

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