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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stats shown here show several significant Xayah vs. Ryze counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Xayah typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually fairs equally well when taking on Ryze, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Xayah does have a higher winrate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xayah into Ryze.
Additionally, Xayah also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Ryze matchups, Xayah is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xayah is a decent counter for Ryze. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xayah against Ryze.
To truly master Xayah to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xayah versus Ryze build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Ryze than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 50.4% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Ryze 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Xayah vs Ryze matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Xayah are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located above.