Xayah vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Xayah
based on 1,958 Xayah vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Xayah vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Xayah in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Xayah versus Sylas counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Xayah often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Sylas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Sylas
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Who is Better, Xayah or Sylas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually fairs equally well when playing against Sylas, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes an ok counter for Sylas.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate compared to Sylas, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Xayah into Sylas.
Furthermore, Xayah also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter to Sylas. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to counter Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Sylas. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Xayah versus Sylas build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Sylas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Sylas with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Sylas 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 used for Xayah vs Sylas face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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