Xayah vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Xayah
based on 2,034 Xayah vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Katarina
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.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Xayah vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several significant Xayah versus Katarina counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Xayah normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Katarina
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Who is Better, Xayah or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Katarina, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter for Katarina.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xayah into Katarina.
Furthermore, Xayah has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter for Katarina. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xayah against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually gets a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Xayah versus Katarina build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Katarina as Xayah, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Xayah vs Katarina clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
If you want to see Xayah vs Katarina tips and builds for a a particular player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and build suggestions shown are computed using all games finished with these champs.