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Xerath Build

Bot Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 6,627 gamesUpdated

53.6%win rate0.3%pick17.5%ban

Who counters Xerath

How to build Xerath

Sorcerer's Shoes→Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap

Sorcerer's Shoes → Luden's Echo → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap

53.4% win rate 14% of games 654 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind31% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport75%
Skills
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Arcanopulse
14578
Eye of Destruction
29101213
Shocking Orb
314151718
Rite of the Arcane
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Xerath build →

Best supports for Xerath

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

Worst supports 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.

53.6%win rate
Patch 26.20: 53.0% over 17,914 gamesPatch 26.21: 53.6% over 6,627 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
53.9%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
17.5%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 2 last patch
61.1%under 22 min
50.5%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.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitB Xerath+Bard champion portraitS BardvsJhin champion portraitB Jhin+Karma champion portraitS Karma
8 / 2 / 7

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Blackfire Torch→Shadowflame→Horizon Focus→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWWRWEEE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitB Xerath+Pyke champion portraitS PykevsJhin champion portraitB Jhin+Milio champion portraitS Milio
4 / 4 / 21

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Horizon Focus→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEE
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitB Xerath+Thresh champion portraitS ThreshvsHwei champion portraitB Hwei+Pyke champion portraitS Pyke
18 / 3 / 11

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Malignance→Stormsurge→Shadowflame→Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWWRWEEERE

Runes

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

Most popular 52.2% win rate · 31% of games · 1,870 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 56.6% win rate · 11% of games · 692 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionPresence of MindCoup de Grace
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport75%53.8%5,127 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier14%51.4%952 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes95%Boots4%Ionian Boots of Lucidity2%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 53.9% win rate

Xerath build

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

  1. Luden's Echo1st
  2. Shadowflame2nd
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap3rd
10% of games that reach a third item take this path55.9% win rate451 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Xerath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 6,765 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
93% · 53.9% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 47.6% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
2% · 56.1% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
1% · 53.8% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 47.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 48.8% win rate · 418 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes5% of games · 57.6% win rate · 316 games
  3. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame›Rabadon's Deathcap+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 55.3% win rate · 302 games
  4. Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 49.1% win rate · 169 games
  5. Luden's Echo›Horizon Focus+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 46.1% win rate · 165 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 supports 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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