Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
The Morgana 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, Morgana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Morgana perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Morgana tries to synergize with Xerath, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Xerath doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Morgana is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Morgana plays with Xerath on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Morgana in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Morgana that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Xerath is a good teammate for Morgana. By being on the same team as Morgana, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 53.1%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Morgana and Xerath that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Morgana. That means Morgana players must be very careful when finding Xerath teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Morgana and Xerath together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to pair well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Morgana and Xerath synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Horizon Focus, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Xerath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Morgana had an average winrate of 53.1% helping carry Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Morgana are shown for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.