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.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stats provided here feature several important Xayah against Lee Sin counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin..
Xayah often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a bad counter to Lee Sin.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate than Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Lee Sin.
Additionally, Xayah has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This 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 in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Lee Sin matchups, Lee Sin is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter to Lee Sin. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xayah against Lee Sin.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats 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 compared to Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling 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 case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Lee Sin build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Lee Sin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Xayah, you should equip 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 runes we have analyed for Xayah vs Lee Sin fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Xayah are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.