Xerath

Xerath is an AP mage in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a top-tier pick — a 53.6% win rate, 5.7% pick rate, 67,189 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Xerath is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.

How Xerath wins: sieging objectives and turrets with sustained pressure, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 10/10 siege, 8/10 waveclear, 7/10 teamfighting. Xerath's soft spots are roaming and disengage (3/10, 3/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.

The most-played core build is Luden's Echo, Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap, which holds a 53.6% win rate across 5,768 games this patch. Set the enemy team at the top of the page to see how the path shifts against that comp.

The matchup to respect is Lux, where Xerath sits at just 41.2%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (62.3%), and on the team side, Xerath gains the most from a Katarina (+6.6% pair win rate).