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.
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Xayah against Taric counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Xayah normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Taric.
Additionally, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xayah is a garbage counter to Taric. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Taric.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah typically picks up much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Taric build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 46.4% battling Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Taric as Xayah, Xayah players 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Xayah vs Taric fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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