Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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 Rengar 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, Rengar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Rengar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rengar plays on the same team as Xerath, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Xerath supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rengar is played together with Xerath 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 alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Rengar plays with Xerath on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Rengar during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Rengar that will always be his top teammate. However, Xerath is a very typical companion for Rengar. By locking into the same side as Rengar, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Rengar and Xerath that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Rengar. That means Rengar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Xerath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Rengar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Rengar and Xerath together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of cover. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Rengar in order to pair well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rengar and Xerath synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Rengar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Rengar are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.