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Xerath champion portrait

Xerath Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 384 gamesUpdated

53.3%win rate0.0%pick17.5%ban

Who counters Xerath

No Top opponent beats Xerath often enough this patch to count as a counter.

How to build Xerath

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

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

45.7% win rate 16% of games 35 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind47% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport68%
Skills
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Arcanopulse
24578
Eye of Destruction
19101213
Shocking Orb
314151718
Rite of the Arcane
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Xerath build →
53.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.8% over 977 gamesPatch 26.21: 53.3% over 384 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
17.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
51.4%under 22 min
54.7%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 portraitT XerathvsZeri champion portraitT Zeri
2 / 2 / 1

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitT XerathvsTaliyah champion portraitT Taliyah
4 / 5 / 1

Build

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

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEER
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Xerath champion portraitT XerathvsHeimerdinger champion portraitT Heimerdinger
1 / 7 / 2

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRWWE

Runes

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

Most popular 52.2% win rate · 47% of games · 134 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.0% win rate · 17% of games · 49 games
InspirationFirst StrikeMagical FootwearBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
SorceryManaflow BandScorch
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 + Teleport68%52.4%267 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier13%49.1%53 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes90%Boots4%Ionian Boots of Lucidity3%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 52.0% win rate

Xerath build

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

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Xerath Top is at 393 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Xerath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 393 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
88% · 52.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes8% of games · 40.6% win rate · 32 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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