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Xerath Build

Mid God Tier

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 49,081 gamesUpdated

52.7%win rate2.2%pick17.5%ban

Who counters Xerath

Every Mid matchup for Xerath, ranked →

How to build Xerath

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

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

56.3% win rate 19% of games 5,762 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind35% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport73%
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 →
52.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 52.1% over 117,542 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.7% over 49,081 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.0%at Emerald+
2.2%pick rate
17.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.6%under 22 min
52.9%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 15–20m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitM XerathvsLeBlanc champion portraitM LeBlanc
1 / 4 / 0

Build

Boots|Luden's Echo

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitM XerathvsRyze champion portraitM Ryze
4 / 7 / 5

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Malignance→Horizon Focus

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWREWEW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitM XerathvsTwisted Fate champion portraitM Twisted Fate
1 / 5 / 3

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWWRWEE

Runes

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

Most popular 52.2% win rate · 35% of games · 16,882 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.2% win rate · 12% of games · 5,629 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
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport73%52.3%37,066 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier16%53.7%8,138 games

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

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes92%Crimson Lucidity4%Boots2%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 53.6% 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
9% of games that reach a third item take this path56.6% win rate2,704 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Xerath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 49,894 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
91% · 53.7% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
4% · 48.5% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 31.2% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 48.2% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
1% · 44.9% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
1% · 51.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes10% of games · 50.6% win rate · 4,872 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes7% of games · 44.9% win rate · 3,477 games
  3. Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 49.6% win rate · 2,267 games
  4. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame›Rabadon's Deathcap+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 56.4% win rate · 2,100 games
  5. Rabadon's Deathcap›Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 56.4% win rate · 1,350 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.

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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