Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
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 on this page show several influential Sejuani against Xerath matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Sejuani’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sejuani may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xerath..
Sejuani usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Xerath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sejuani usually loses when trying to fight Xerath, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Sejuani makes a poor counter for Xerath.
While Sejuani does have a much lower win rate compared to Xerath, when on opposite teams, Sejuani also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Sejuani into Xerath.
Furthermore, Sejuani also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sejuani vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sejuani is a terribly counter to Xerath. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sejuani against Xerath.
If you would like to truly master Sejuani 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sejuani typically gets less CS compared to Xerath. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sejuani versus Xerath build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Sejuani incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Xerath than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Sejuani boasted an average winrate of 45.7% battling Xerath with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Xerath as Sejuani, Sejuani players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Sejuani vs Xerath clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% win rate overall.
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