Alistar with Xerath
How to Synergize Alistar and Xerath
based on 1,162 Alistar with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Xerath
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xerath helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Xerath, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Xerath provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Xerath on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Xerath
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no ideal companion for Alistar that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical companion for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Alistar and Xerath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Xerath allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Alistar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Xerath together, you will not be granting your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to pair well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Alistar and Xerath synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Alistar and Xerath pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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