Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Xayah versus Draven matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Draven..
Xayah often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Draven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Draven, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a poor counter for Draven.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate compared to Draven, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Draven.
Additionally, Xayah also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Xayah is a trash counter for Draven. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Draven.
If you would like to truly master Xayah to counter Draven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Draven. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Draven build include Kraken Slayer, Phantom Dancer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Draven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Draven with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Draven as Xayah, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Xayah vs Draven counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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