Kai'Sa vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Kai'Sa
based on 6,090 Kai'Sa vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Xerath
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Kai'Sa vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some significant Kai'Sa against Xerath matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xerath’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xerath..
Kai'Sa normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Xerath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Xerath
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Xerath?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Xerath, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Xerath.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Xerath, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Xerath.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter to Xerath. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually picks up more CS as Xerath. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Xerath build include Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Xerath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when playing against Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Xerath as Kai'Sa, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Kai'Sa vs Xerath counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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