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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Xerath against Senna matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Senna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Senna..
Xerath normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Senna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xerath usually wins when taking on Senna, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Xerath makes a good counter to Senna.
While Xerath does have a higher winrate than Senna, when facing one another, Xerath also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xerath into Sennaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Xerath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Senna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Senna matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a decent counter to Senna. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Senna.
If you would like to truly master Xerath in order to counter Senna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath most often racks up more CS as Senna. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Xerath versus Senna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Xerath used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Senna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Senna with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Senna as Xerath, Xerath players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Xerath vs Senna face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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