Xerath with Fiddlesticks
How to Synergize Xerath and Fiddlesticks
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Xerath Fiddlesticks Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Fiddlesticks
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Fiddlesticks
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.
Xerath Fiddlesticks Synergy Stats
How to Play with Fiddlesticks as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Fiddlesticks. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Fiddlesticks helps Xerath perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath is an ally to Fiddlesticks, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Fiddlesticks supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Fiddlesticks. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Fiddlesticks does a poor job of protecting Xerath in teamfights.
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Fiddlesticks?
There is no one best synergy for Xerath that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Fiddlesticks is a very bad ally for Xerath. By being on the same side as Xerath, he lowers their win rate by -3.4% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Xerath and Fiddlesticks that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Fiddlesticks has a greater difficulty than Xerath. That means Xerath players must be very careful when finding Fiddlesticks allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Xerath players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Xerath and Fiddlesticks together, you will not be giving your other allies much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Fiddlesticks ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xerath to work well with Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Xerath and Fiddlesticks synergy build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Fiddlesticks than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Fiddlesticks with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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