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.
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some critical Xayah vs. Graves counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Xayah often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Graves. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 45.0% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Xayah does have a much lower winrate compared to Graves, when facing one another, Xayah also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Graves.
Furthermore, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xayah is a garbage counter for Graves. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Graves.
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average picks up much more CS compared to Graves. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xayah versus Graves build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Phantom Dancer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Graves than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 45.0% when playing against Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Graves as Xayah, you 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 sets players picked for Xayah vs Graves battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.0% win rate overall.
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