Illaoi vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Illaoi
based on 1,172 Illaoi vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Xayah
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Win Against Xayah
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.
Illaoi vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here show some strategic Illaoi against Xayah counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Illaoi often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Xayah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Xayah
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when taking on Xayah, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate compared to Xayah, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Xayah.
Additionally, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Xayah matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Xayah. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Xayah build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Xayah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Xayah with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Xayah as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Xayah matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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