Katarina vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Katarina
based on 2,034 Katarina vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Xayah
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some vital Katarina against Xayah matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xayah. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Xayah
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Who is Better, Katarina or Xayah?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a good counter to Xayah.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Xayahas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Xayah matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Xayah. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Xayah. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Xayah build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Xayah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 51.5% battling Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Xayah as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Katarina vs Xayah counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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