Xerath vs Ornn
How to Beat Ornn as Xerath
based on 3,260 Xerath vs Ornn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Ornn Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Ornn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ornn as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Ornn
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 Ornn
Try to stay away from walls. Ornn is much less strong if he cannot stun you.
Attack Ornn to keep him from creating items in lane.
Xerath vs Ornn Counter Stats
How to Counter Ornn with Xerath in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Xerath versus Ornn counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ornn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ornn..
Xerath often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Ornn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Ornn
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Who is Better, Xerath or Ornn?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xerath usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ornn, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes an ok counter for Ornn.
While Xerath does have a lower win rate than Ornn, when on opposite teams, Xerath also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Ornnas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Xerath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ornn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Ornn matchups, Ornn is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Xerath is a somewhat poor counter to Ornn. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Ornn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to counter Ornn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually gets less CS as Ornn. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xerath versus Ornn build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Ornn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Ornn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Ornn as Xerath, Xerath players should use 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 Ornn matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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