Heimerdinger with Xerath
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Xerath
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Heimerdinger Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Xerath
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
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.
Heimerdinger Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Xerath, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Xerath helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Xerath on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger in teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Xerath
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no ideal ally for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Xerath is a good ally for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 52.2%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Heimerdinger and Xerath that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Heimerdinger players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Heimerdinger and Xerath together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to pair well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Heimerdinger and Xerath synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 52.2% helping carry Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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