Mordekaiser vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Mordekaiser
based on 4,125 Mordekaiser vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Mordekaiser vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Mordekaiser vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser against Xayah
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
Mordekaiser vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Mordekaiser in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Mordekaiser against Xayah counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xayah..
Mordekaiser often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Mordekaiser and Xayah
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Who is Better, Mordekaiser or Xayah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when taking on Xayah, with a 53.9% win rate. As a result, Mordekaiser makes a great counter to Xayah.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher win rate compared to Xayah, when on opposite teams, Mordekaiser also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Mordekaiser into Xayah.
Furthermore, Mordekaiser has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Xayah matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Mordekaiser is a great counter for Xayah. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Mordekaiser against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Mordekaiser to counter Xayah during both the lane 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 tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Xayah. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Mordekaiser versus Xayah build include Nashor's Tooth, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Xayah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser had an average win rate of 53.9% battling Xayah with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Xayah as Mordekaiser, Mordekaiser players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Mordekaiser vs Xayah counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.9% win rate overall.
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