Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 here clarify several significant Taliyah versus Xayah counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah..
Taliyah normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually wins when facing off against Xayah, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a great counter for Xayah.
While Taliyah does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Taliyah into Xayah.
Additionally, Taliyah has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Xayah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taliyah is a great counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Xayah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah often racks up a similar amount of CS as Xayah. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Xayah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Xayah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 53.1% when playing against Xayah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Xayah as Taliyah, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Taliyah vs Xayah counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% win rate overall.
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