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 vital Seraphine versus Xayah counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xayah. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Seraphine typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Xayah. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Seraphine usually wins when trying to fight Xayah, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes a great counter to Xayah.
While Seraphine does have a higher win rate compared to Xayah, when on opposite teams, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Seraphine into Xayah.
Additionally, Seraphine has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Xayah matchups, Seraphine is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Seraphine is a great counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Seraphine against Xayah.
If you would like to truly master Seraphine in order 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine most often picks up less CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Seraphine versus Xayah build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Seraphine used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Xayah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Seraphine boasted an average winrate of 53.2% when countering Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Xayah as Seraphine, Seraphine players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Triple Tonic, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Seraphine vs Xayah counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Seraphine are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.