Bard vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Bard
based on 1,585 Bard vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Xayah Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Xayah
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Bard versus Xayah counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xayah. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Xayah
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Who is Better, Bard or Xayah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Xayah, with a 53.8% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Xayah.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Xayah, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Xayahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. 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 in League of Legends, in Bard vs Xayah matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Bard is a great counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Xayah. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Bard versus Xayah build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Xayah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.8% when countering Xayah with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Xayah as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Bard vs Xayah matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.8% win rate overall.
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