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 provided here highlight some important Rell vs. Xayah matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xayah. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when playing against Xayah, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Rell does have a lower win rate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rell into Xayah.
Moreover, Rell has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter to Xayah. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Xayah.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Xayah. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rell versus Xayah build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Xayah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rell had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Xayah as Rell, Rell players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rell vs Xayah LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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