Rek'Sai vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Rek'Sai
based on 312 Rek'Sai vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Xayah
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Rek'Sai against Xayah matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Rek'Sai normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Xayah
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Xayah?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when facing off against Xayah, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter to Xayah.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower win rate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rek'Sai into Xayah.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai also 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 overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rek'Sai is a trash counter to Xayah. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai on average racks up a lot less CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rek'Sai versus Xayah build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Xayah than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Xayah as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rek'Sai vs Xayah counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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