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.
Miss Fortune's speed boost is removed if she is damaged by an enemy.
Miss Fortune is easy to kill if you can reach her; target her first in team fights.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Xerath against Miss Fortune counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Miss Fortune’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Miss Fortune..
Xerath often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Miss Fortune. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xerath usually loses when playing against Miss Fortune, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Xerath makes a poor counter to Miss Fortune.
While Xerath does have a lower win rate than Miss Fortune, when on opposite teams, Xerath also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Miss Fortuneas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Xerath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Miss Fortune. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Miss Fortune matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Xerath is a somewhat poor counter for Miss Fortune. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Miss Fortune.
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to counter Miss Fortune during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath typically racks up less CS compared to Miss Fortune. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Xerath versus Miss Fortune build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Xerath used at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Miss Fortune than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Miss Fortune with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Miss Fortune as Xerath, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Xerath vs Miss Fortune counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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