Xerath with Yasuo
How to Synergize Xerath and Yasuo
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Xerath Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Yasuo
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.
Advice to Understand How Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Xerath Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yasuo helps Xerath perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath plays on the same team as Yasuo, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Yasuo does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Yasuo on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yasuo.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Yasuo on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Xerath during teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Yasuo
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no ideal ally for Xerath that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Yasuo is a good ally for Xerath. By locking into the same team as Xerath, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 51.7%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Xerath and Yasuo that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Xerath. That means Xerath players must be very careful when enlisting Yasuo teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Xerath and Yasuo together, you probably will not be giving your team very much engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Yasuo teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to pair well with Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Xerath and Yasuo synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Xerath used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Xerath players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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