Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Xayah vs. Blitzcrank matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between these two champs. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Xayah often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when facing off against Blitzcrank, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter for Blitzcrank.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate compared to Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Blitzcrank.
Additionally, Xayah also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This 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 Xayah vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Xayah is a garbage counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Blitzcrank.
To truly master Xayah to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into 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.
Xayah on average gets much more CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Xayah versus Blitzcrank build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 47.1% battling Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Blitzcrank as Xayah, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Xayah vs Blitzcrank LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Blitzcrank as Xayah are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.