Caitlyn with Xayah
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Xayah
based on 217 Caitlyn with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Caitlyn Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Xayah
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xayah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xayah helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Xayah, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Xayah helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Xayah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xayah.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Xayah on the same team, she on average takes more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xayah does a poor job of covering Caitlyn during team fights.
Synergies between Caitlyn and Xayah
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect ally for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Xayah is a very bad companion for Caitlyn. By playing on the same side as Caitlyn, she decreases their win rate by -6.4% to 42.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Xayah that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be very careful when arranging Xayah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Caitlyn players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Caitlyn and Xayah together, you will not be providing your team much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to pair well with Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Caitlyn and Xayah synergy build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Caitlyn included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Xayah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 42.9% helping carry Xayah with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Caitlyn players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.9% winrate overall.
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