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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Xayah against Zeri matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zeri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zeri..
Xayah usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zeri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually wins when taking on Zeri, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a good counter to Zeri.
While Xayah does have a higher winrate compared to Zeri, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Xayah into Zeri.
Moreover, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zeri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Zeri matchups, Xayah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xayah is an above average counter to Zeri. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Zeri.
To truly master Xayah to counter Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Zeri. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Zeri build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Zeri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Zeri with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Zeri 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Xayah vs Zeri battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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