Caitlyn with Xerath
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Xerath
based on 16,113 Caitlyn with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Caitlyn Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Xerath
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Xerath, she sees a little drop in her complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Xerath does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Xerath on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn in teamfights.
Synergies between Caitlyn and Xerath
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no perfect ally for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Xerath is a good ally for Caitlyn. By playing on the same side as Caitlyn, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Caitlyn and Xerath that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you should be very careful when lining up Xerath allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Caitlyn players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Caitlyn and Xerath together, you may not be providing your team enough cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Caitlyn to work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Caitlyn and Xerath synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Lord Dominik's Regards. When Caitlyn used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Xerath than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Caitlyn players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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