Irelia vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Irelia
based on 1,592 Irelia vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Xayah
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Irelia versus Xayah counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xayah..
Irelia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Xayah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Xayah
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Who is Better, Irelia or Xayah?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a good counter to Xayah.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Xayah.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Xayah matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter for Xayah. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Xayah. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Irelia versus Xayah build include Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Xayah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 51.4% when playing against Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Xayah as Irelia, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Irelia vs Xayah counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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