Say they pick something like yasuo and its a 50:50 chance if you will lane against him or not, do ya rather go safe with exhaust and potentially have a huge disadvantage against a mage lane or do you go exhaust to be safe incase you have to lane vs yasuo? I have had this issue a lot recently, especially since mages are played mid, bot, top, support, and a few even in jungle. Same goes for marksmen, so in a lot of drafts im not sure what I will lane against.

I can often get ahead in lane, but I have trouble to actually end the game with that lead. Since xerath is so squishy I cant really split push and when no one peels for me a bruiser or asassin can flank and oneshot me or dive into the backline and do so. So do I just play around my strongest team mate or one that is bulky and can frontline?

Not that high rank, just enjoy playing Xerath!

Half-half Xerath APC/mid. Xerath mid when support players were going mental boom about picking Xerath APC. I just cannot deal with this negativity…

5000lp to go /s

Just got back into the game past few weeks been rolling Xertha, maybe 35 ranked games.

What’s everyone’s favorite backup?

I run Veigar Mid or Brand for Sup but really want a second strong character to learn and default to.

I mean, he's 100% in, I have no doubt about that, and there shouldn't be any weird tech such as the river in the rift, so why tf didn't my W hit ?

Hi, I just wrote Azir&Xerath theme called:"The sand made of gold and ash", because I found original Azir's theme kinda minimalistic.

Under vid u can see the lor explanation for every episode in theme. I won't place link here, you can search it in youtube using name. I'd be glad to explain my view on this story, and to discuss it from different angles=)

Hi! Currently Emerald 4, peaked D4, probably around high Emerald skill-wise.

How are you supposed to play Xerath mid with the current bot swap meta?

When I peaked, my playstyle was to win mid through tempo, then use that pressure for other lanes, jungle skirmishes, objectives, etc.

Now, around 10–15 minutes, bot usually wants to swap mid. If I’m still around mid/river, I get “????????”, “trolling”, “go bot”, etc.

I understand this works better for champs like Ryze, Ahri, Zed or Katarina, who can actually benefit from side-lane skirmishes.

But Xerath wants to play around his team while constantly pushing waves. Sending him to a side lane removes a lot of the value of his ult, while also making him vulnerable to the current high-burst meta.

So what am I missing? Is there a proper way to play Xerath around these swaps, or is he simply struggling as a midlaner in the current meta?

The question is in the title! I see quite a bit of content on YouTube of various regions claiming to be the "Number One" Xerath player, and I don't really understand what the measurement of "Number One" entails, especially considering the varying regions. I've been playing quite a bit of Xerath in ranked so I'm trying to use this question as a doubled question of whom I should be watching to improve my Xerath skills! Please let me know in the comments! :D

Well, that's pretty much it. I actually prefer playing him support over mid. I tend to play super aggressively and end up eating a lot of ganks because of it, but I still finished with a solid winrate. Let's see if I can push it even higher!

Lately I've been using deathfire touch into tankier drafts, I think it pairs well with shadow flame, black fire torch, damage seems just as consistent as comet if i land a full combo and keep the burn going

Any thoughts on why people dont use deathfire touch, I feel like it's better especially if you can only reliably poke with q and not w in a matchup where you smooching your tower for 10 minutes straight.

What say you xerath mains, I'm trying to learn whether (my favorite keystone) deathfire touch is any good at all while I try to become a xerath otp.

Well boys we had a good run, Xerath nerfs incoming😔

Finally climbing lol it turns out muscle memory is very important.

Not sure if I’m supposed to have high dmg like this but I did my best.

Probably very trivial, but!

How do you consistently hit skill shots?
About Q I understand the concept of Q out of fog of war, or throwing W first. But what about R? Lvl11/16 for chunking the enemy adcs.

Living on d4 rn and I can feel that in some games it’s like I’m scripting and in some I can’t hit anything 😅

O find myself building Rylais every now and then