Zilean vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Zilean
based on 628 Zilean vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Xayah
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Zilean versus Xayah matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zilean usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Xayah
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Who is Better, Zilean or Xayah?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when trying to fight Xayah, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a good counter for Xayah.
While Zilean does have a higher win rate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zilean into Xayah.
Furthermore, Zilean also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Xayah matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zilean is an above average counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean usually racks up a lot less CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zilean versus Xayah build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Xayah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Xayah with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Xayah as Zilean, Zilean players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zilean vs Xayah LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
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