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.
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Xayah against Braum counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Xayah normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Braum. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Braum, with a 44.1% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter to Braum.
While Xayah does have a much lower winrate compared to Braum, when facing one another, Xayah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Xayah into Braum.
Additionally, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Xayah is a garbage counter for Braum. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Braum.
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to counter Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah often accumulates much more CS relative to Braum. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Xayah versus Braum build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Braum than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 44.1% battling Braum with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Braum as Xayah, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Xayah vs Braum clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Braum as Xayah are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.