Xerath vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Xerath
based on 8,345 Xerath vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Morgana
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 Win Against Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Xerath vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Xerath in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Xerath versus Morgana matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Morgana..
Xerath usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Morgana. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Morgana
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Who is Better, Xerath or Morgana?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually fairs equally well when taking on Morgana, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes an ok counter to Morgana.
While Xerath does have a higher winrate compared to Morgana, when on opposite teams, Xerath also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Morganaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Morgana matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Xerath is a decent counter for Morgana. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Morgana.
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How We Calculated Our Xerath vs Morgana Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xerath in order to counter Morgana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually accumulates more CS relative to Morgana. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Xerath versus Morgana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Xerath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Morgana than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 50.6% battling Morgana with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Morgana as Xerath, Xerath players 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 sets that we analyzed for Xerath vs Morgana fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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