If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Xerath versus Fiora counter stats that can help us explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiora’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Fiora. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Xerath normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Fiora. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually loses when facing off against Fiora, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Xerath makes a bad counter for Fiora.
While Xerath does have a lower win rate compared to Fiora, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Xerath into Fioraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Xerath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a terribly counter for Fiora. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Fiora.
To truly master Xerath to counter Fiora during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath typically racks up less CS as Fiora. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Xerath versus Fiora build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Xerath used at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Fiora than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 47.3% battling Fiora with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Fiora as Xerath, Xerath players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Xerath vs Fiora counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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