Gwen with Xerath
How to Synergize Gwen and Xerath
based on 2,654 Gwen with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Xerath
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Gwen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Xerath, she observes a small decrease in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Xerath doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Xerath on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Gwen in team fights.
Synergies between Gwen and Xerath
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no perfect ally for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Xerath is a decent teammate for Gwen. By locking into the same team as Gwen, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 49.4%. This shows that there is a good synergy between Gwen and Xerath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players must be very careful when lining up Xerath teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gwen and Xerath together, you may not be giving your other allies much engage potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to work well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Gwen and Xerath synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Gwen combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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