Xayah is a character in League of Legends Wild Rift. Guide includes Xayah build, best runes, abilities, and counters!
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Xayah Rating & Stats
Xayah | |
Tier: | S |
Damage: | ★★★ |
Utility: | ★☆☆ |
Difficulty: | ★★☆ |
Toughness: | ★☆☆ |
Xayah is a marksman in the League of Legends Universe who plays in Duo lane. Xayah deal physical damage with fast attack speed and has good Crowd control abilities.
Rating by her Stats, Xayah is consider to be Moderate champion to play.
Xayah Build
Blade of the Ruined King | |
Runaan's Hurricane | |
Gluttonous Greaves | |
Infinity Edge | |
Bloodthirster | |
Guardian Angel | |
Quicksilver Enchant |
The best Xayah Build in Wild Rift start from Blade of the Ruined King following by Runaan's Hurricane and Gluttonous Greaves as her core items.
Next is Infinity Edge to boost her Critical rate, Bloodthrister, and Guardian Angel to get revives at death.
Xayah Runes
The best Wild Rift Xayah Runes are Conqueror keystone with Gathering Storm, Spirit Walker, and Sweet Tooth.
Conqueror | Gain stacks of AD or AP when hitting a champion with seperate attacks or abilities. Stacks up to 5 times. When fully stacked deal bonus damage to champions. (Adaptive) |
Gathering Storm | Every 2 minutes, gain AD or AP. (Adaptive) |
Spirit Walker | Gain bonus max health and slow resistance. |
Sweet Tooth | Increases Honeyfruit healing effect, each fruit also provides bonus gold. |
Summoner Spells
Flash | Teleport a short distance forward or toward the aimed direction. |
Heal | Restores 80 Health and grants 30% bonus Movement Speed for 1 seconds to you and the most wounded nearby ally champion. |
Xayah Abilities
View Wild Rift Xayah combos and orders, and ability details.
Ability Combos
1. Deadly Plumage > Double Daggers > Bladecaller.
2. Featherstorm > Deadly Plumage > Double Daggers.
3. Double Daggers > Bladecaller > Deadly Plumage.
Ability Orders
Double Daggers | Deadly Plumage | Bladecaller | Featherstorm |
1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
4 | 8 | 12 | 9 |
6 | 10 | 14 | 13 |
7 | 11 | 15 |
Ability Details
Clean Cuts | After using an ability, Xayah's next 3 attacks will hit all enemies along their path and drop Feathers she can reclass. Xayah can store up to 5 Feathers at a time. Lover's Leap: Xayah and Rakan can join each other's recall. Both will reach the Summoning Platform while the initiator's recall ends. |
Double Daggers | Throws two daggers dealing 35 physical damage each and leaving two feathers. Targets hit after the first take 50% damage. Cooldown: 10/9/8/7 Mana: 50 |
Deadly Plumage | Creates a storm of blades for 4s that grants 25% Attack Speed and causes attacks to deal 20% more damage. If Deadly Plumage strikes an enemy champion, gain 25% Movement Speed for 2 seconds. If Rakan is nearby he will also gain the effects of this skill. Cooldown: 20/18/16/14 Mana: 60 |
Bladecaller | Calls back all Feathers, dealing 55 physical damage to enemies they pass through. Hitting an enemy with 3 feathers roots them for 1s. Cooldown: 12/11/10/9 Mana: 40 |
Featherstorm | Leaps into the air, becoming untargetable and throwing out a fan of daggers which deal 100% physical damage and leave behind a line of Feathers. Can move while in the air. Cooldown: 95/85/75 Mana: 100 |
Xayah Counters
Enemy Matchups
Good Against | |
Ashe | Xayah is a good counter to Ashe since you has better wave clearing advantage, fast attack speed, and higher damage in early game. |
Jhin | Xayah is also a good counter pick to Jhin, you has better attack range especially in early game you can harass Jhin easily with your Double daggers. |
Jinx | Xayah is a good champion against Jinx. She has better AoE damage output when harassing plus Jinx doesn't have any skill to dodge Xayah Bladecaller. |
Varus | Xayah and Varus attack range are on par, when fighting you tend to have better crowd control than Varus. You can also use your ultimate to dodge his ultimate as well. |
Draven | Play Xayah against Draven you need to maintain your range from his high damage. You can harass Draven well with your Double daggers and Bladecaller when he come in close. |
Hard Counters | |
Ezreal | Ezreal is a great champion to counter Xayah, you can use Mystic shot to harass her or stay out of her double dagger range. When she try to ultimate you can also use Arcane Shift to get out as well. |
Vayne | Vayne can also pick to counter Xayah, Vayne has high damage burst, and good mobility especially with tumble. She can also condemn Xayah out if she try to use her ultimate. |
Miss Fortune | Miss Fortune has better mobility when playing Against Xayah, you can also harass Xayah with your Double up or Make it rain to zone her out. |
Tristana | When playing Tristana against Xayah, you can deal higher damage with your Explosive charge and use Rocket Jump to dodge Xayah ultimate. |
Support Partners
Rakan | Rakan is the best support for Xayah, the both has sync abilities. The grand entrance is also a good ability to protect you from getting ganked. |
Braum | Braum is a great support to play with Xayah, his passive concussive blow work very well with your double dagger and call back combo, also he can protect you with his Unbreakable ability as well. |
Blitzcrank | Blitzcrank is an aggressive support that can lane well with Xayah, with the Rocket grab allows Blitz to hook the enemy into your feather range and eliminate the target. |
Seraphine | Seraphine is a good healer / aggressive support to play with Xayah. She can zone the enemy out with her High note and Beat drop while you can farm without getting harass from the enemy. |
Lulu | Lulu is a good defensive / healer support that play well with Xayah, Lulu can shield you with Help pix ability and boost your strength by using Wild Growth during teamfight. |
Alistar | Alistar is a good defensive / tank champion to support Xayah, When teamfight Alistar is very useful with his Ultimate on and you can output your maximum damage. |
Xayah Pros and Cons
Pros |
1. Powerful damage spike when hitting combos. |
2. Fast attack speed and movement speed. |
3. Great Ultimate can dodge any ability if timing correctly. |
4. Strong AOE damage output in teamfight. |
Cons |
1. Difficult champion to play. |
2. Require good timing to land an ability. |
More Champions Guide
Ashe | Ezreal | Jhin |
Jinx | Vayne | Varus |
Kai'Sa | Draven | Miss Fortune |
Tristana | Xayah |