Ahri vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Ahri
based on 1,786 Ahri vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Xayah
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Ahri against Xayah matchup stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Ahri normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Xayah
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Who is Better, Ahri or Xayah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Xayah, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Xayah, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Xayah.
Additionally, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Xayah. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Xayah. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Xayah build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Xayah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 49.8% when playing against Xayah with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Xayah as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Ahri vs Xayah clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Ahri are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.