Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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 stats shown here emphasize several influential Renekton against Xayah matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xayah..
Renekton normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Renekton usually fairs equally well when taking on Xayah, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Renekton makes an ok counter to Xayah.
While Renekton does have a higher winrate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Renekton also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Renekton into Xayah.
Moreover, Renekton also has only a small 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Xayah matchups, Renekton is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Renekton is a decent counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Renekton against Xayah.
To truly master Renekton in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Xayah. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Renekton versus Xayah build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Xayah than with most other common builds. In fact, Renekton boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing against Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Xayah as Renekton, Renekton players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Renekton vs Xayah counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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