Syndra vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Syndra
based on 1,313 Syndra vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Xayah
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Syndra in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several important Syndra versus Xayah counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Syndra normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Xayah
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Who is Better, Syndra or Xayah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Xayah, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Syndra does have a higher win rate compared to Xayah, when on opposite teams, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Syndra into Xayahas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Syndra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Xayah matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Syndra is a decent counter for Xayah. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Syndra against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Syndra 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 grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Xayah. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Syndra versus Xayah build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Xayah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Xayah as Syndra, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Syndra vs Xayah LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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