Xayah vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Xayah
based on 2,349 Xayah vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Xayah vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Xayah against Leona counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Xayah often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Leona
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Who is Better, Xayah or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Xayah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Xayah into Leona.
Moreover, Xayah has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Xayah is a trash counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xayah
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xayah in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually accumulates much more CS relative to Leona. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xayah versus Leona build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Xayah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Leona as Xayah, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Xayah vs Leona clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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