Kayle vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Kayle
based on 4,463 Kayle vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Xerath
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Kayle in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some significant Kayle versus Xerath counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xerath..
Kayle often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Xerath. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Xerath
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Who is Better, Kayle or Xerath?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when taking on Xerath, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes an ok counter to Xerath.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate compared to Xerath, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Xerathas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Xerath. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to counter Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average accumulates more CS relative to Xerath. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kayle versus Xerath build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Wit's End, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Xerath than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Xerath with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Xerath as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kayle vs Xerath face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xerath as Kayle are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.