Xerath with Nilah
How to Synergize Xerath and Nilah
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Xerath Nilah Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Nilah
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.
Xerath Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nilah helps Xerath perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is paired with Nilah, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Nilah provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Nilah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nilah.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Nilah on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nilah does a decent job of covering Xerath during team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Nilah
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no ideal companion for Xerath that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Nilah is a decent teammate for Xerath. By playing on the same side as Xerath, they improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Xerath and Nilah that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Xerath. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Nilah teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Xerath players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Xerath and Nilah together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of tankyness. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nilah teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Xerath and Nilah synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nilah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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 runes players picked for Xerath and Nilah pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nilah with Xerath are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.