Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
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 shown on this page emphasize some critical Sejuani against Xayah matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Sejuani’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sejuani may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sejuani often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sejuani usually fairs equally well when taking on Xayah, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Sejuani makes an ok counter to Xayah.
While Sejuani does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when they face off with one another, Sejuani also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sejuani into Xayah.
Moreover, Sejuani also has a good 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 overall in League of Legends, in Sejuani 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 allies during team fights.
Sejuani is a decent counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sejuani against Xayah.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sejuani to counter Xayah during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sejuani typically accumulates a lot less CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sejuani versus Xayah build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sejuani included at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Xayah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Sejuani boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Xayah with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Xayah as Sejuani, Sejuani players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Sejuani vs Xayah battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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