Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
The stat comparisons shown here show some vital Ashe versus Xerath counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xerath..
Ashe normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Xerath. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ashe usually loses when trying to fight Xerath, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Ashe makes a bad counter for Xerath.
While Ashe does have a lower win rate compared to Xerath, when they face off with one another, Ashe also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ashe into Xerath.
Moreover, Ashe also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ashe is a bad counter for Xerath. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ashe against Xerath.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ashe in order to counter Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Xerath. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ashe versus Xerath build include Runaan's Hurricane, Statikk Shiv, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Ashe bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Xerath than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ashe had an average win rate of 47.7% battling Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Xerath as Ashe, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Ashe vs Xerath counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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