Xerath with Janna
How to Synergize Xerath and Janna
based on 1,651 Xerath with Janna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xerath Janna Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Janna
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Janna
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 Understand How Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Xerath Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xerath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Janna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Janna helps Xerath perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is paired with Janna, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Janna provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played alongside Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Janna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Janna.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Janna on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Janna does a decent job of covering Xerath during teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Janna
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Janna?
There is no top champion pairing for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Janna is a decent teammate for Xerath. By being on the same side as Xerath, she increases their win rate by 1.9% to 52.5%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Xerath and Janna that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Janna has a lower difficulty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be very careful when arranging Janna teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xerath and Janna together, you may not be providing your other allies much attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Janna ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to pair well with Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Xerath and Janna synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Janna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Xerath players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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