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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Xayah vs. LeBlanc counter stats that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than LeBlanc..
Xayah normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually fairs equally well when taking on LeBlanc, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes an ok counter for LeBlanc.
While Xayah does have a higher win rate compared to LeBlanc, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into LeBlanc.
Furthermore, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah vs LeBlanc matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Xayah is a decent counter to LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against LeBlanc.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to LeBlanc. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Xayah versus LeBlanc build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus LeBlanc than with most other common builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling LeBlanc with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating LeBlanc 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 picked for Xayah vs LeBlanc fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Xayah are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.