Is Zwag Even Good at Xerath!? The Rank 1 Xerath Reacts!

I love these kinds of videos. No hate on zwag, but it's really informative to see his mistakes and hear them get called out. Thanks for the great content!

Great commentary without being toxic, W Xerath

Ik Zwag can be a little controversial, but I still love his vids. Eboy is the most underrated on the FFS, even tho he's so knowledgable and has great tips! Zwag is a very good player, but he tends to rage (most League players, so what's new). This is a Grandmaster game believe it or not. He did a Zwagmo climb with Teemo and made it very far! He is currently doing a jungle climb too. As much as I hate smurfs in my games, Zwag does it for content and fun builds bc that's literally his job, and it's working out for him. He said that high elo gets pretty repetitive and you can't test new builds or champs, so there's not much content to see. Zwag is so successful bc of how many champs he can play. I think Eboy is better at macro and the little details than Zwag though.

Love the vid, Zwag has terrible mental. He's tilting even when they're winning.

in ffs i knew u as a funny little guy but here u show off your game knowledge and to be honest the confidence looks great on you ! this style of a video is very informative. i believe zwag hasn't been playing xerath lately as much as in previous seasons so he is quite rusty but his skillshot predictions are always very impressive to me

28:52 Misses almost all of his abilities "Nobody hit him!"

I think it’s important to note that the Nasus he played against was a 600 LP challenger while Zwag is a 300LP GM player. Zwag did the most dmg in the game as he should so although there were some things that could’ve been done better I think Zwag overall played fairly well considering he hasn’t played Xerath in high elo in awhile. Eboy did a good job breaking down zwags game! Zwags gotten a ton better through his climb so I would be interested to see Zwag play another high elo matchup as Xerath now that he’s played more games in high elo

50:50 That was so funny "Yeaaaaah"

16:05 "we're not a Karthus" 17:31 "Xerath...is a Karthus" 🤔

I used to be a Zwag fan person, not to say I don't like him I just found a lot of other people who are more chill. I get Zwags been playing for awhile and LOL can be...rage inducing even when not playing ranked. I still watch his vids but not as often as there are many good creators out there.

got this guy in my draft game once, i made one mistake as jg and he flamed stole camps and just made it unplayable for me. very cool

Some good tips, but there is no chance in hell you kill a Nasus early with Second Wind and Doran's Shield as a Xerath. Wouldn't have made any difference at all if he took Comet. I go Sorcery/Dom mostly too, but thats just kinda delusional thinking Nasus would be killable. This one had Lethal Tempo for whatever reason, but if he wouldve taken Fleet like other Nasus' then the chances would be near 0 to even do impactful poke. Edit: Also the negligence on Horizon Focus is concerning. Not even mentioned. And it's a really good item on Xerath if you dont wanna go Rylais/Malignence route which I feel is not doing that much dmg. 38:30 That's exactly why Zwag thinks Xerath is a bad champion (which he is. 49% WR Emerald+ and 46% WR Master+) There are so many champions in the game who can kill squishys AND tanks easily. Not being able to solo carry the game while being like 15/0 as a Xerath just because someone builds 1 MR item is bad balancing and champion design. Yes LoL is a "Team" game, but consider if the rest of the team was dogwater and you had a 0/8 adc like every second game. You won't get to say "oh they will kill the tanks" Another edit: Where you are 100% right and do way better than Zwag is using your ult almost permanently. Zwag sits on his ult sometimes for minutes. Even if you dont get a kill and just ult to bot, you at least make them need to back or be in a bad spot. And Zwag only ults if he gets a kill out of it

Eboy makes a gentle video with no bad intentions about his friend who also plays his champ. Comment section turns into a warzone, just waiting for israel and palestine to come into it now, or maybe we could bring religion in somehwere guys? Start a war about that too sure?

Would you take first strike vs a difficult match up or a farming lane ?

I started to dislike Zwag when I found out that all his content was just shitting on low elo players with smurf accounts, and acting as if he is some sort of god.

the fun thing about ranking, is that it's not stable .... anyway good vid with good tips on a champ i'll never play :D

cool video, good job :hand-purple-blue-peace:

Thanks for being honest to point out all his mistakes and why he can't be considered as good! His vid comments are like a cult praising his gameplay, which is so so terrible and subpar that I got frustrated watching for 1 minute tbh. I'm just silver but I'd say his true rank is nothing more than silver, not to mention his 'there is nothing I can do' passive attitude, never-call-to-start-a-team-fight or never-pick-any-frontline always-randomly-spamming-skills no-team play style, limited understanding of macro gameplay...

but if nasus outscales u either way and has a hard time hitting you, is not first strike a good rune so that you scale hard into mid/late game to make dammage on others cuz he wont probably be able to kill nasus?

I do think Nasus is a hard match up for Xerath. He took first strike because he fully believed that he could not get him low, which opting for money instead of poke which would be useless is better. In fact, the Nasus didn't even go to the HP where Doran's Shield is most effective. Furthermore, because of his intentions of scaling, he'd have likely taken gathering storm. Even if it is possible for a Xerath to poke a Nasus out of lane, Zwag hasn't played in high-elo, sadly, so his knowledge about the current match ups are different, same with his technique in certain aspects. I, and many others, can see quite a difference between Zwag a year ago and current day Zwag playing Xerath, as he seems rusty nowadays. I'd say where Zwag strives is his positioning, as he positions almost perfectly every fight. Not sitting back and being overly passive so you miss plays, and not being overly aggresive late game, and he adjusts this through out the game. In my eyes, I believe that Zwag doesn't have as good fundamentals as you, but his positioning is a lot better.