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.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stats shown here feature several critical Xayah against Vladimir matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vladimir..
Xayah often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Vladimir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Vladimir, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a bad counter for Vladimir.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate compared to Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Vladimir.
Moreover, Xayah also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Xayah is a garbage counter for Vladimir. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Vladimir.
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to counter Vladimir during both the lane 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 suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Vladimir. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Xayah versus Vladimir build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Vladimir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 46.0% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Vladimir as Xayah, you should use 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 rune combinations players chose for Xayah vs Vladimir battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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