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.
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
The Xayah Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xayah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Annie helps Xayah perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah tries to synergize with Annie, she gets a little decrease in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Annie doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Xayah plays with Annie on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Annie does a decent job of protecting Xayah in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Xayah that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Annie is a very typical companion for Xayah. By being on the same side as Xayah, she lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Xayah and Annie that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means you should be careful when finding Annie allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Xayah and Annie together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much engage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to pair well with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Xayah and Annie synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Annie than with many other common builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Annie with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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