Orianna with Xerath
How to Synergize Orianna and Xerath
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Orianna Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Xerath
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xerath helps Orianna perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Xerath, she gets a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Xerath doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Xerath on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Orianna in team fights.
Synergies between Orianna and Xerath
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no ideal companion for Orianna that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Xerath is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By playing on the same side as Orianna, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Orianna and Xerath that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players must be careful when lining up Xerath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Orianna and Xerath together, you probably will not be granting your team enough AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Orianna in order to pair well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Orianna and Xerath synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Xerath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xerath with Orianna are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.