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Xerath champion portrait

Xerath Build

Support Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 49,358 gamesUpdated

50.0%win rate2.3%pick17.5%ban

Who counters Xerath

  • Rell champion portraitRell45.4%1,230 games · 26.20
  • Sona champion portraitSona45.8%1,060 games · 26.20
  • Leona champion portraitLeona46.2%1,914 games
  • Soraka champion portraitSoraka46.2%728 games
  • Yuumi champion portraitYuumi46.9%1,210 games

Every Support matchup for Xerath, ranked →

How to build Xerath

Sorcerer's Shoes→Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Horizon Focus

Sorcerer's Shoes → Luden's Echo → Shadowflame → Horizon Focus

49.7% win rate 14% of games 2,949 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind34% of games
SpellsFlashHealFlash + Heal71%
Skills
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Arcanopulse
24578
Eye of Destruction
19101213
Shocking Orb
314151718
Rite of the Arcane
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Xerath build →

Best ADCs for Xerath

Who Xerath has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Xerath

Who Xerath has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

50.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.5% over 114,045 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.0% over 49,358 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.3%at Emerald+
2.3%pick rate
17.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
53.4%under 22 min
48.1%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitS Xerath+Jhin champion portraitB JhinvsNautilus champion portraitS Nautilus+Ashe champion portraitB Ashe
17 / 7 / 10

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeSorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Horizon Focus

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

WQEQQRQEWQRWWWER
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitS Xerath+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'SavsNami champion portraitS Nami+Jinx champion portraitB Jinx
3 / 9 / 19

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeSorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Horizon Focus→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashHeal|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRWWEE
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitS Xerath+Aphelios champion portraitB ApheliosvsThresh champion portraitS Thresh+Ashe champion portraitB Ashe
4 / 12 / 21

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeSorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge→Horizon Focus

Spells & runes

FlashHeal|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.9% win rate · 34% of games · 16,332 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.5% win rate · 19% of games · 8,981 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashHealFlash + Heal71%50.3%36,210 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash13%49.6%6,764 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes86%Ionian Boots of Lucidity6%Boots5%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 50.8% win rate
Support item
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike95%Celestial Opposition2%Runic Compass1%
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike most often · 50.3% win rate

Xerath build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Luden's Echo1st
  2. Horizon Focus2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
8% of games that reach a third item take this path50.5% win rate1,716 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Xerath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 49,885 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
84% · 50.9% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
6% · 49.6% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 42.7% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 48.8% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
1% · 52.0% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
1% · 41.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes12% of games · 47.4% win rate · 6,078 games
  2. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes11% of games · 51.1% win rate · 5,263 games
  3. Luden's Echo›Horizon Focus+Sorcerer's Shoes8% of games · 50.1% win rate · 4,193 games
  4. Luden's Echo›Stormsurge+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 51.6% win rate · 2,194 games
  5. Luden's Echo+Boots3% of games · 41.5% win rate · 1,334 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Xerath against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Xerath's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Xerath's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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