Xerath vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Xerath
based on 2,135 Xerath vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Lee Sin
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
Advice to Win Against Lee Sin
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Xerath vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Xerath in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Xerath vs. Lee Sin counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Xerath usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Xerath or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xerath usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 57.3% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes a fantastic counter to Lee Sin.
While Xerath does have a much higher winrate than Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Xerath into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Xerath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Lee Sin matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a great counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath most often gets more CS relative to Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Xerath versus Lee Sin build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shard of True Ice. When Xerath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Lee Sin than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 57.3% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Lee Sin as Xerath, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Xerath vs Lee Sin matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 57.3% winrate overall.
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