Xerath vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Xerath
based on 2,224 Xerath vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Orianna Counter Build
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Core Xerath Items
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Orianna
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.
Advice to Win Against Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Xerath vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Xerath in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Xerath against Orianna matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Orianna..
Xerath usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Orianna. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Orianna
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Xerath or Orianna?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xerath usually wins when playing against Orianna, with a 53.9% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes a great counter for Orianna.
While Xerath does have a higher win rate compared to Orianna, when facing one another, Xerath also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Xerath into Oriannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Orianna matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xerath is a great counter to Orianna. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Orianna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xerath
Additional Information for Xerath Players
How We Calculated Our Xerath vs Orianna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually picks up less CS compared to Orianna. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Xerath versus Orianna build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Orianna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 53.9% when countering Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Orianna as Xerath, Xerath players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Xerath vs Orianna fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
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