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LoL Champion Build Guides: Xerath
Xerath The Magus Ascendant
Find the best Xerath build guides for League of Legends S11 Patch 11.15. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Xerath build for the S11 meta. Learn more about Xerath's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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[11.15] Climb responsibly with Xerath, Social Distance Mage
[11.15] Climb responsibly with Xerath, Social Distance Mage
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Hanjaro's Xerath Supporting your way to Challenger
Hanjaro's Xerath Supporting your way to Challenger
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[11.15] [Spanish] [Mid | Support] OTP Xerath - GUIA ESPAÑOL
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Xerath Build [MID]
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[11.13] Xerath Support long long range
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Xerath Support
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[ SEASON 11 ] Xerath Support Guide - Climb with Ease
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[11.9] XERATH BUFF: Xerath Mid OTPs guide to climb
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[11.13] [Master] NEW ITEMS - Free Elo Xerath Guide - update
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[11.4] Best Xerath in Silver Guide
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[11.1] Dark Harvest Xerath Build - Massive poke
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Full Xerath Mid Guide
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Xerath Mid & Support - German - English (w.i.p.)
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Fear the Xerath (Support guide)
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Midlane Matchups
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Xerath funny oneshot Dark Harvest
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[11.7] Xerath Support Guide - Poke to win
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Foking xerath
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Xerath support
Xerath Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Xerath we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Xerath, as determined by LeagueSpy's calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Xerath this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 11.15. However, if you are a new Xerath player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Xerath!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Xerath's Top Items
Xerath's Top Items
Shard of True Ice
Horizon Focus
Zhonya's Hourglass
Xerath's Top Runes
Xerath's Runes
50%
Win Rate 7334 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 2182 Games
Third Best
67%
Win Rate 72 Games
Xerath's Summoner Spells
51%
Win Rate 11116 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Xerath's Starters
51%
Win Rate 25073 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Trinket
51%
Win Rate 29173 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
48%
Win Rate 3209 Games
Stealth Ward
Third Best
49%
Win Rate 2247 Games
Farsight Alteration
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Xerath's Core Items
Boots
Xerath's Luxury Items
Xerath's Ability Order
69%
Win Rate 407 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Mana Surge (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
64%
Win Rate 342 Games
Mana Surge (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
63%
Win Rate 142 Games
Mana Surge (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Xerath Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Xerath Players are using on LeagueSpy!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Xerath's Top Items
Xerath's Top Items
Shard of True Ice
Horizon Focus
Zhonya's Hourglass
Xerath's Top Runes
Xerath's Runes
50%
Win Rate 1426 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
63%
Win Rate 79 Games
Third Best
63%
Win Rate 56 Games
Xerath's Summoner Spells
52%
Win Rate 9757 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Xerath's Starters
51%
Win Rate 13421 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Trinket
50%
Win Rate 9459 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
52%
Win Rate 8211 Games
Farsight Alteration
Third Best
49%
Win Rate 724 Games
Oracle Lens
Don’t forgetto Buy Wards
Xerath's Core Items
Boots
Xerath's Luxury Items
Xerath's Ability Order
78%
Win Rate 51 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Mana Surge (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
63%
Win Rate 1375 Games
Mana Surge (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
65%
Win Rate 500 Games
Mana Surge (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Xerath Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Xerath Players are using on LeagueSpy!
Xerath Counters
Learn 's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Xerath guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Xerath Support in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Xerath. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Xerath
Worst Against Xerath
Xerath Skins
Find Xerath's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Xerath skins and chromas on Xerath's skins page.
Dark Star Xerath
March 26, 2020
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Scorched Earth Xerath
July 13, 2012
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Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Xerath's Abilities
Second cast: After a brief cast time, Xerath fires a beam of energy in a line the deals 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+85% of ability power) magic damage to all enemies hit.
Enemies hit directly take 100 / 158.4 / 216.7 / 275 / 333.3 (+100.2% of ability power) magic damage and are slowed by 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 % instead. The empowered slow decays down to 25% over the duration.
Rite of the Arcane can be cancelled early by moving or attacking and will automatically end once all shots have been fired. If Rite of the Arcane ends without using a single cast of Arcane Barrage, the cooldown is reduced by 50%.
Arcane Barrage: Xerath calls down a blast of arcane energy which strikes after a short delay, dealing 200 / 250 / 300 (+45% AP) magic damage to enemies within a moderate area. Arcane Barrage has a 0.8 second cooldown between casts (unaffected by cooldown reduction).
Questions About Xerath
Latest Questions
Can Kennen or Xerath jungle?
When going through the champs I like to use, I look at Kennen and Xerath's kits and think, "You know, would these guys do well as junglers? I mean, Ezreal and Twitch both jungle." I just want to know if it's possible before I go testing...
Feeling difficult to deal damage to mages who build RoA, what should I do?
Situation: In the early-mid game, I built Morellonomicon, opponent built RoA. Problem: Feeling difficult to deal damage to opponents who build RoA. As they have higher effective health after building RoA, I feel like 'my abilities do not...
Void Staff vs Abyssal Scepter
This might sound like a stupid question. On ap carries such as [[leblanc]] or [[viktor]] for example, when would it be better to build a [[void staff]] over an > [[abyssal scepter]] and vice versa? Both are relatively cheap and give a...
How can I go about reporting someone on here?
I made a guide for Xerath and it has been top guide for 3-4 months and some random guy completely copied it. Really, word for word in some parts with hardly changing pretty much anything. Like he took way that I talk with no credit onto me. It is...
How to play Xerath?
Hey everyone! I've started playing [[Xerath]] but I have no idea how to play him. I've read guides etc. but they seem to be outdated to just plain wrong. This is how I build: [[Doran's Ring]] > [[Haunting Guise]] > [[Sorcerer's Shoes]]...
xerath update
¿you gonna wait until de launch of you gonna actualize xerath now??? is my favorite champ so i´ll like to see guides of he with his new changes and all that stuff.
Next AP Mid to learn and why?
Hey, so I can't really decide which champion to learn next after I have finished with Evelynn. I play AP Mid in a fixed 5vs5 team so I need champions who are valuable in organised competitive play. Champions I currently am able to play on a decent...
Xerath's Top Items
Shard of True Ice
Horizon Focus
Zhonya's Hourglass
Xerath's Top Runes
