Xayah vs Vladimir Counter Pick

Resource mechanics set the terms from the start. Vladimir draws on Crimson Rush and pays with health through Tides of Blood instead of mana. Crimson Pact converts each 30 bonus health into 1 ability power, and each point of ability power into 1.6 bonus health, so his damage and his toughness come from the same investment. Xayah’s Deadly Plumage and Bladecaller both cost mana, and in a long trade she runs into a cost floor she cannot get past. Over 178 logged games on patch 16.13.1, Xayah sits at 42.1%.

Both champions have an untargetable ability, and that is usually where fights turn. Featherstorm carries Xayah out of danger while she fires a fan of daggers, and Sanguine Pool drops Vladimir into a two-second sink that slows nearby enemies and drains their life. If she spends hers first, he gets a clean opening. His 450 attack range against her 525 rarely matters, since Transfusion is a targeted steal that becomes far stronger at full resource, and Hemoplague boosts all damage taken in its area before it detonates. Because his damage is magic, 96.4 armor at level 18 does little for him, and 30 base magic resist is the stat to build toward. Both move at 330, and his 600 base health climbing to 2,470 barely edges her 2,449, so neither side holds a durability advantage. More on Vladimir.