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.
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some significant Xayah against Hecarim counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Hecarim..
Xayah usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Hecarim, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes a bad counter to Hecarim.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate than Hecarim, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Hecarim.
Additionally, Xayah also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter for Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xayah against Hecarim.
If you would like to truly master Xayah to counter Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah often gets much more CS compared to Hecarim. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well 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 shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Xayah versus Hecarim build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Hecarim than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Hecarim with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Hecarim 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Xayah vs Hecarim counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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