Jayce with Xerath
How to Synergize Jayce and Xerath
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Jayce Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Jayce vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jayce and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Jayce with Xerath
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Jayce in LoL
The Jayce 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, Jayce sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xerath helps Jayce perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jayce is an ally to Xerath, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Xerath does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Jayce is played together with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Jayce plays with Xerath on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Jayce in teamfights.
Synergies between Jayce and Xerath
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Is Jayce better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Jayce that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical ally for Jayce. By locking into the same side as Jayce, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 48.4%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Jayce and Xerath that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Jayce. That means Jayce players need to be very careful when lining up Xerath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Jayce and Xerath together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jayce in order to work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Jayce and Xerath synergy build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Opportunity. When Jayce used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jayce boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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