Tristana with Xerath
How to Synergize Tristana and Xerath
based on 4,451 Tristana with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tristana Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Tristana vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Xerath
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana 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 drop shows that Xerath helps Tristana perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is an ally to Xerath, she sees a little drop in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Xerath does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tristana 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.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Xerath on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Tristana in teamfights.
Synergies between Tristana and Xerath
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Xerath is a very typical companion for Tristana. By playing on the same side as Tristana, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 49.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Tristana and Xerath that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means you must be very careful when lining up Xerath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Tristana and Xerath together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tristana to pair well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Tristana and Xerath synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Xerath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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