Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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 stats shown here highlight some influential Dr. Mundo against Xerath counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xerath..
Dr. Mundo usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Xerath. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually wins when playing against Xerath, with a 53.5% win rate. Therefore, Dr. Mundo makes a great counter to Xerath.
While Dr. Mundo does have a higher win rate compared to Xerath, when facing one another, Dr. Mundo also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Dr. Mundo into Xerath.
Moreover, Dr. Mundo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Xerath matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a great counter to Xerath. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Dr. Mundo against Xerath.
To learn all of the intricacies of Dr. Mundo in order to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo usually gets more CS relative to Xerath. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Dr. Mundo versus Xerath build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Dr. Mundo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Xerath than with most other typical builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average winrate of 53.5% battling Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Xerath as Dr. Mundo, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Dr. Mundo vs Xerath matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xerath as Dr. Mundo are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.