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[3.5b] Xayah Guide - Challenger Guide for Being a Skilled Xayah

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Challenger Guide for Being a Skilled Xayah

How to kite your enemies to their demise.

Pros

  • Extremely good at kiting and chasing
  • Good lane harass
  • High DPS if you cycle her feathers correctly
  • Ultimate is a good zoning and escape tool

Cons

  • Susceptible to dive
  • Relatively low auto attack range
  • Low DPS if you don't cycle her feathers correctly

Xayah Build

Best Build Guide for Xayah

Starting Items
Long Sword
Brawler's Gloves
Caulfield's Warhammer
Cloak of Agility
B.F. Sword
Kircheis Shard
Core Items
Stormrazor
Infinity Edge
Rapid Firecannon
Phantom Dancer
Bloodthirster
Gluttonous Greaves
Situational items
Maw of Malmortius
Lord Dominik's Regards
Navori Quickblades
Essence Reaver
Blade of the Ruined King
Mortal Reminder

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

Start Long SwordLong Sword , and try to get B.F. SwordB.F. Sword first recall.

StormrazorStormrazor is by far one of XayahXayah 's best items. It gives her all her important stats and the passive is her bread and butter for slowing enemies to kite and chase them.

Infinity EdgeInfinity Edge is needed for damage amp or you will have no DPS. It Increases the damage on your auto attacks as you will be sending out a lot of those, especially if you take Lethal TempoLethal Tempo . The large amount of AD it gives increases the damage on you Double DaggersDouble Daggers , Deadly PlumageDeadly Plumage , and BladecallerBladecaller , as well as your FeatherstormFeatherstorm of course.

BloodthirsterBloodthirster for this reason is also one of her strongest items. It gives about the same amount of AD and lifesteal to help you stay alive while kiting. You can buy BloodthirsterBloodthirster after StormrazorStormrazor and delay Infinity EdgeInfinity Edge until your 4th or 5th item.

Your 3rd item should be a ZealZeal item. It will give you 75% crit chance and move speed. Having 75% or 100% crit is what you want on XayahXayah as your autos will hurt very much. The move speed is godsend as you will be able to move around really quickly and place your feathers better.
I would recommend trying to get Rapid FirecannonRapid Firecannon as it will help you with your short auto attack range. There is also a possible combo with Double DaggersDouble Daggers > enhanced Rapid FirecannonRapid Firecannon auto attack > StormrazorStormrazor slow proc > BladecallerBladecaller for a really fast root.

The last 2 items are situational of course. Phantom DancerPhantom Dancer and Maw of MalmortiusMaw of Malmortius as usual are excellent for the lifeline passive. Phantom DancerPhantom Dancer against melee and Maw of MalmortiusMaw of Malmortius for Mages.
Lord Dominik's RegardsLord Dominik's Regards is great for a flurry of auto attacks, it gives AD and crit, so by this item against tanks and squishies.
Always buy Blade of the Ruined KingBlade of the Ruined King as one of your last items against high health targets, pair it with a Last WhisperLast Whisper item and you can deal with tanks better.

There should be other build paths incorporating Essence ReaverEssence Reaver and Navori QuickbladesNavori Quickblades as one of her core items but I don't think they are Best in Slot.
Navori QuickbladesNavori Quickblades is a good buy 3rd or 4th item if you want to greed more DPS and if the fights last long enough for you to run through many cycles of your basic abilities.

For boots you almost always want Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves and Quicksilver EnchantQuicksilver Enchant . Take Hunter TitanHunter Titan with Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads in the case that they have a lot of crowd control.

Xayah Runes

Best Runes for Xayah

Keystone
Conqueror
Conqueror
Domination
Hunter Vampirism
Hunter Vampirism
Resolve
Nullifying Orb
Nullifying Orb
Inspiration
Nimbus Cloak
Nimbus Cloak

ConquerorConqueror feels like it is Best in Slot after a lot of testing. Lethal TempoLethal Tempo feels weak in terms of AD damage and it is easier to stack ConquerorConqueror .

Hunter VampirismHunter Vampirism for the scaling AD and Omnivamp.

Nullifying OrbNullifying Orb is great with all the AD you get in the early game.

Nimbus CloakNimbus Cloak will of course help you kite and chase enemies.

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Clean Cuts
Clean Cuts - Passive
Double Daggers
Double Daggers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Deadly Plumage
Deadly Plumage
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Bladecaller
Bladecaller
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Featherstorm
Featherstorm
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Flash
Always
Exhaust
Against dive
Barrier
Against mages and range
Ghost
Got to go fast sometimes
Heal
Maybe

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

Auto Attack
AA
Deadly Plumage
2nd
Auto Attack
AA
Clean Cuts
Passive

Auto cancel every ability as usual. You can auto-cancel your Deadly PlumageDeadly Plumage for an enhanced auto attack before the skill activates.

Double Daggers
1st
Auto Attack
AA
Bladecaller
3rd
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA

Fast root if in range without Rapid FirecannonRapid Firecannon

Auto Attack
AA
Deadly Plumage
2nd
Auto Attack
AA
Double Daggers
1st
Bladecaller
3rd
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA

Advanced fast root with Deadly PlumageDeadly Plumage

Auto Attack
AA
Double Daggers
1st
Auto Attack
AA
Deadly Plumage
2nd
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Bladecaller
3rd

Full feather cycle. Landing one auto attack minimum is vital before using your next ability.

Auto Attack
AA
Double Daggers
1st
Auto Attack
AA
Featherstorm
Ult
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Auto Attack
AA
Bladecaller
3rd

Ultimate combo

Bladecaller
3rd
Flash
Flash
Featherstorm
Ult
Flash
Flash

Activate BladecallerBladecaller then flash to redirect it.

Activate FeatherstormFeatherstorm then flash at the end of it to place it further or to the side.

Xayah Matchups & Counters

Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters

Corki
Easy
Corki
Draven
Easy
Draven
Ezreal
Easy
Ezreal
Lucian
Easy
Lucian
Samira
Medium
Samira
Jinx
Hard
Jinx
Miss Fortune
Hard
Miss Fortune
Varus
Hard
Varus
Ashe
Skill
Ashe
Caitlyn
Skill
Caitlyn
Jhin
Skill
Jhin
Kai'sa
Skill
Kai'sa
Tristana
Skill
Tristana
Vayne
Skill
Vayne
Xayah
Skill
Xayah

Don't get poked.

Use Deadly PlumageDeadly Plumage to run circles around him and wait for him to ValkyrieValkyrie before you use BladecallerBladecaller .

Xayah

TIPS

You have to play XayahXayah to get a feel for how to place your feathers.

You also need to be proficient at auto canceling, kiting and tethering or you will struggle a lot.
You can tether enemies with higher range than you with your Deadly PlumageDeadly Plumage by landing a hit and quickly walking back with the move speed buff, then walking back towards them when they turn away to do it again.

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