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.
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
The Xayah Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Xayah perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah plays on the same team as Varus, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Varus does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Varus on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Varus does a decent job of covering Xayah in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Varus is a not very good teammate for Xayah. By playing on the same side as Xayah, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Xayah and Varus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Xayah. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Varus teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Xayah players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Xayah and Varus together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to work well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Xayah and Varus synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 45.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Varus with Xayah are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.