Soraka with Xerath
How to Synergize Soraka and Xerath
based on 1,532 Soraka with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Soraka Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Soraka vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Xerath
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Soraka perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka is an ally to Xerath, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Xerath provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Xerath on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Soraka during team fights.
Synergies between Soraka and Xerath
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Soraka that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Xerath is a pretty good companion for Soraka. By playing on the same team as Soraka, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 50.4%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Soraka and Xerath that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Soraka. That means you must be cautious when finding Xerath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Soraka players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Soraka and Xerath together, you will not be providing your team much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Soraka to work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Soraka and Xerath synergy build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Dawncore. When Soraka incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Xerath with Soraka are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.