Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Fiora against Xayah matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xayah..
Fiora normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Xayah. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiora usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 53.9% win rate. Thus, Fiora makes a great counter for Xayah.
While Fiora does have a higher win rate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Fiora also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Fiora into Xayah.
Moreover, Fiora has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Xayah matchups, Fiora is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Fiora is a great counter to Xayah. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiora against Xayah.
To truly master Fiora in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Xayah. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Fiora versus Xayah build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Fiora bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Xayah than with many other common builds. In fact, Fiora boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when playing against Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Xayah as Fiora, Fiora players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Fiora vs Xayah clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Fiora are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.