PASSIVE CLEAN CUTS
After using an ability, Xayah's next basic attacks will hit all targets along their path and leave a Feather. Lover's Leap: Xayah can join Rakan's recall.
Xayah Wild Rift champion guide
Champion guide
What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.
- In-game title
- the Rebel
- Official role
- MARKSMAN, MAGE
- Lane
- Dragon / ADC
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Source tier
- S
Abilities
Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.
1 DOUBLE DAGGERS
Xayah throws two damaging daggers that also drop Feathers she can recall.
2 DEADLY PLUMAGE
Xayah creates a storm of blades that increase her basic attack speed and damage while granting her movement speed if she attacks a champion. If an ally Rakan is nearby, he also gains the effects of this ability.
3 BLADECALLER
Xayah calls back all her dropped Feathers dealing damage and rooting enemies if hit with 3 or more.
ULTIMATE FEATHERSTORM
Xayah leaps into the air becoming untargetable and throwing out a fan of daggers, dropping Feathers she can recall.
Reviewed build
The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.
Core build order
Runes
Situational answers
One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.
- Enemy healingLord Dominik's Regard
- Enemy burstGuardian Angel
Matchups
- 6reviewed counter links
- 5reviewed synergy links
Harder matchups
- CaitlynDragon / ADCB
- DravenDragon / ADCA
- VarusDragon / ADCS
- LucianDragon / ADCA
- JhinDragon / ADCS
- AsheDragon / ADCA
Useful alongside this pick
Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.
Quick answers
Who counters Xayah in Wild Rift?
In the matchup data documented in Rift Lab, these are the harder matchups for Xayah: Caitlyn (Dragon / ADC), Draven (Dragon / ADC), Varus (Dragon / ADC), Lucian (Dragon / ADC), Jhin (Dragon / ADC), Ashe (Dragon / ADC). This is a documented matchup list, not a win rate: TheNexus does not publish win-rate or pick-rate figures it cannot source.
How do you play against Xayah in Wild Rift?
Riot's ability text for Xayah describes a dash, leap or blink in FEATHERSTORM (ultimate). Plan around those abilities before a trade or a fight. These notes are keyword matches over the ability text only, not a rating of how strong Xayah is, so read the full descriptions on this page.
What is the best build for Xayah in Wild Rift?
The Nexus-reviewed core build for Xayah, in purchase order: Bloodthirster then Magnetic Blaster then Mortal Reminder then Berserker's Greaves then Galeforce. Runes: Conqueror, Brutal, Cut Down, Legend: Alacrity, Bone Plating. Situational swaps: against enemy healing: Lord Dominik's Regard; against enemy burst: Guardian Angel. This is a reviewed snapshot (patch 7.2b), not a build ranked by win rate.
Which lane and role does Xayah play in Wild Rift?
Xayah is a Marksman and Mage by Riot's classification and is played in Dragon / ADC. Riot rates the difficulty Medium. On our tier-list snapshot (patch 7.2b) it shows S tier from its external source, which is a snapshot letter and not a TheNexus win rate.
Every answer here is built from Rift Lab data and Riot's own ability text. Where the data is missing we say so instead of guessing.