Illaoi with Xerath
How to Synergize Illaoi and Xerath
based on 3,040 Illaoi with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Xerath
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Illaoi perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Xerath, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Xerath helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Xerath on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Illaoi during teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Xerath
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Xerath is a good teammate for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 51.8%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Illaoi and Xerath that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means Illaoi players need to be very careful when enlisting Xerath allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Xerath together, you will not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to pair well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Illaoi and Xerath synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Xerath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Xerath with Illaoi are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.