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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Xerath vs. Singed matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Singed..
Xerath typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Singed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xerath usually loses when facing off against Singed, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Xerath makes a bad counter for Singed.
While Xerath does have a lower win rate compared to Singed, when facing one another, Xerath also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xerath into Singedas 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 Singed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Xerath is a somewhat poor counter to Singed. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xerath against Singed.
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to counter Singed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath often racks up less CS as Singed. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot 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 displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Xerath versus Singed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Xerath included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Singed than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Singed with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Singed 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 builds players used for Xerath vs Singed clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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