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.
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
The Xayah Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xayah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Xayah perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xayah is paired with Illaoi, she gets a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Illaoi doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Illaoi.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Illaoi on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Xayah in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Xayah that will always be her top teammate. However, Illaoi is a very typical companion for Xayah. By playing on the same team as Xayah, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Xayah and Illaoi that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players don't need to be careful when finding Illaoi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Xayah players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Xayah and Illaoi together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Illaoi teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to synergize with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Xayah and Illaoi synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 47.4% helping carry Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Illaoi with Xayah are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.