Brand vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Brand
based on 3,329 Brand vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Xayah
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Brand versus Xayah counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Brand usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Xayah. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Xayah
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Who is Better, Brand or Xayah?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 55.8% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a fantastic counter to Xayah.
While Brand does have a much higher win rate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Xayah.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Xayah matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a great counter for Xayah. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Xayah 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 matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually picks up less CS relative to Xayah. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Brand versus Xayah build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 55.8% when countering Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Xayah as Brand, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Brand vs Xayah counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.8% win rate overall.
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