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.
Purchasing Vision Wards can help you detect Evelynn's location in order to prepare for her ambushes.
A large share of Evelynn's threat is in her charm, 'Allure.' Protect allies marked with 'Allure' or, if you are marked, make sure allies are between you and where Evelynn may attack from.
If you suspect Evelynn is about to ambush one of your teammates, let them know by pinging the minimap and typing in chat.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some significant Xayah versus Evelynn counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between these two champs. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Evelynn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Evelynn..
Xayah typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Evelynn. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Evelynn, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes a bad counter to Evelynn.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate compared to Evelynn, when facing one another, Xayah also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Evelynn.
Moreover, Xayah also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Evelynn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Evelynn matchups, Evelynn is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter to Evelynn. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Evelynn.
If you would like to truly master Xayah to counter Evelynn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen 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.
Xayah on average gets much more CS as Evelynn. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Xayah versus Evelynn build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Evelynn than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Evelynn with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Evelynn as Xayah, Xayah players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Xayah vs Evelynn fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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