Xayah vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Xayah
based on 1,091 Xayah vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Kindred
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.
Advice to Win Against Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Xayah vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Xayah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Xayah versus Kindred counter statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Xayah normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kindred. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xayah and Kindred
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Who is Better, Xayah or Kindred?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Kindred, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes a bad counter to Kindred.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate than Kindred, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Kindred.
Additionally, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter for Kindred. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Kindred.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xayah
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to counter Kindred during both the lane 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 displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average accumulates much more CS as Kindred. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Kindred build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Kindred than with most other common builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Kindred with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Kindred as Xayah, you should use 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 builds that we analyzed for Xayah vs Kindred battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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