Poppy with Xerath
How to Synergize Poppy and Xerath
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Poppy Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Xerath
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy 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 negative change shows that Xerath helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is an ally to Xerath, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Xerath supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Xerath on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Poppy in team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Xerath
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no top ally for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, overall, Xerath is a decent companion for Poppy. By locking into the same team as Poppy, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Poppy and Xerath that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players need to be cautious when finding Xerath allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Poppy and Xerath together, you will not be providing your team much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy in order to pair well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Poppy and Xerath synergy build consist of Thornmail, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Poppy combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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