Kayn with Xayah
How to Synergize Kayn and Xayah
based on 2,842 Kayn with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayn Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Kayn vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Xayah
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Advice to Understand How Xayah Will Play
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.
Kayn Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is an ally to Xayah, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Xayah does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Xayah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xayah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xayah.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Xayah on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Xayah does a decent job of covering Kayn during team fights.
Synergies between Kayn and Xayah
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no ideal ally for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Xayah is a relatively poor companion for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Kayn and Xayah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xayah teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, Kayn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Kayn and Xayah together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to pair well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Kayn and Xayah synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Xayah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Xayah with Kayn are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.