Xayah
Hardest matchups for Xayah in Bot (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Vel'Koz, 
Xerath, 
Jinx. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Mel, 
Cassiopeia.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into XayahOn the pro tier list
Xayah on patch 16.22
- Bot52.0%#7 of 51S23,952 games
- steady since 16.21
Xayah’s main role on patch 16.22 is Bot: a 52.0% win rate across 23,952 Emerald games, #7 of 51 Bot champions on the tier list (grade S), picked in 9.4% of games. Since patch 16.21, Xayah Bot has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.0 points across 130,649 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot100% of its games | A | 51.5%51.5% raw ±0.5 | 43,951 | 6.2%1.3% banned | 52.5%49.9% first time |
| Mid0% of its games | too few games | 49.7%47.2% raw ±9.4 | 108 | 0.0%1.3% banned | 51.2%47.0% first time |
| Top0% of its games | too few games | 49.3%41.0% raw ±10.8 | 83 | 0.0%1.2% banned | 51.6%46.0% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.8%33.3% raw ±32.7 | 9 | 0.0%1.3% banned | — |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.8%20.0% raw ±43.8 | 5 | 0.0%1.2% banned | 51.3%47.4% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Xayah’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Xayah, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Xayah
Lane leads and team bans
What Xayah’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Xayah than the other team does in the same games (282,844 games). The other team banned before Xayah was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Xayah was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Xayah is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Crit
52.9%44,962 games - Lethality
52.6%75 games - Mana stack
52.8%23 games - On-hit
52.8%10 games - Enchanter
52.9%1 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Xayah does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
47,549 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Barrier51.4% · 34,270 games
Lethal TempoPrecision + Inspiration · 51.3%
Triumph · Legend: Bloodline · Cut Down · Cash Back · Triple TonicShards: Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Bow + Health Potion · 53.0%
Key items: Yun Tal Wildarrows → Infinity Edge · 56.1%
Boots: Gluttonous Greaves · 55.7%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
Flash + Ghost53.0%1,635 games · 3.4% pick rate · same players: +0.0 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Flash + Barrier51.4%34,270 games · 72% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Exhaust + Flash52.4%8,488 games · 18% pick rate · same players: −1.2 pts vs the usual
Cleanse + Flash49.4%2,861 games · 6.0% pick rate · same players: −1.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Lethal Tempo + Inspiration51.3%33,899 games · 71% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Conqueror + Inspiration52.8%9,792 games · 21% pick rate · same players: −0.1 pts vs the usual
Lethal Tempo + Sorcery54.3%1,012 games · 2.1% pick rate · same players: −1.6 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Lethal Tempo + Domination48.2%983 games · 2.1% pick rate · same players: −2.0 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Lethal Tempo
- Triumph54.2%14% take it
Presence of Mind50.8%86% take it
- Legend: Bloodline51.0%91% take it
Legend: Alacrity54.5%8.9% take it
- Cut Down52.1%31% take it
Coup de Grace50.9%68% take it
- Cash Back52.0%35% take it
- Triple Tonic52.6%18% take it
Biscuit Delivery50.8%67% take it
Magical Footwear50.9%62% take it
Cosmic Insight51.3%16% take it
- Attack Speed51.5%98% take it
- Adaptive Force51.5%99% take it
- Health52.2%33% take it
- Health Scaling51.2%66% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Xayah’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Xayah’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Xayah does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Xayah wins 50.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.7%. That gap ranks it 162 of 173 for how much practice pays. It is at 50% or better from the first games, under 5,000 mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Xayah in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot | 53.7%127W 88L | 9%9% in any lane | 64% counter | +1 gold | — |
How much knowing Xayah pays
Players on their Mastery band win 2.1 points more on Xayah than first-timers do: #162 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Xayah players win 52.7%: #61 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 53.9% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
XayahDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Xayah ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Aphelios, Zeri, Sivir.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.