Twitch vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Twitch
based on 6,509 Twitch vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Twitch vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Twitch vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Twitch
Tips for Playing as Twitch against Xerath
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
Advice to Win Against Xerath
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
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.
Twitch vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Twitch in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some critical Twitch versus Xerath counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xerath. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Twitch usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Xerath. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Twitch and Xerath
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Who is Better, Twitch or Xerath?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Twitch usually fairs equally well when playing against Xerath, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Twitch makes an ok counter for Xerath.
While Twitch does have a higher win rate than Xerath, when facing one another, Twitch also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Twitch into Xerath.
Moreover, Twitch 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Twitch 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 allied champions during team fights.
Twitch is a decent counter for Xerath. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Twitch against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Twitch to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch typically racks up more CS relative to Xerath. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Twitch versus Xerath build include Kraken Slayer, Infinity Edge, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Twitch combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Twitch boasted an average win rate of 50.0% battling Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Xerath as Twitch, Twitch players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Twitch vs Xerath matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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