Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Udyr against Xayah matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah..
Udyr usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Udyr makes a good counter for Xayah.
While Udyr does have a higher win rate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Udyr also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Udyr into Xayahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Udyr also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Xayah matchups, Udyr is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Udyr is a good counter for Xayah. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Udyr against Xayah.
To truly master Udyr in order to counter Xayah 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr often accumulates less CS compared to Xayah. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Udyr versus Xayah build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Xayah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Udyr boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when countering Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Xayah as Udyr, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Udyr vs Xayah battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Udyr are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.