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.
If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
The Xerath Evelynn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Evelynn, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xerath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Evelynn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Evelynn helps Xerath perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath tries to synergize with Evelynn, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Evelynn doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played with Evelynn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Evelynn.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Evelynn on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Evelynn does a poor job of protecting Xerath during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Evelynn is a relatively poor ally for Xerath. By locking into the same side as Xerath, she decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Xerath and Evelynn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Evelynn has a greater difficulty than Xerath. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Evelynn teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Xerath players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Xerath and Evelynn together, you will not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Evelynn ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Xerath in order to synergize with Evelynn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Xerath and Evelynn synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Evelynn than with most other typical builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Evelynn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Xerath players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Evelynn with Xerath are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.