Zed vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Zed
based on 2,217 Zed vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Xayah
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Zed vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Zed versus Xayah counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Xayah
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Who is Better, Zed or Xayah?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Xayah, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Xayah, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Xayahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Xayah. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Xayah. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zed versus Xayah build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.4% battling Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Xayah as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Zed vs Xayah clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Zed are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.