[4.3] Xayah Guide - Xayah, the feather is mightier than a sword

Engager:

Rakan definitly your best partner. Your Deadly Plumage also buffs him and his Battle Dance gives you  a bigger shield. Technically you can do a lvl 1 cheese, by hiding in the enemy bush where he jumps in and you use your Deadly Plumage and either kill an enemy or poke him really low so he has to retreat and burn a summoner spell like [flash]

Nautilus , Thresh , Pyke and Blitzcrank are catchers. Personal favorite is definitly Thresh, because he got great engage and peel with his [thresh:2] and Flay . You can easy follow him up due to his lantern. On the other hand i feel that Nautilus from this champs is better for team fights, to disrupt as many as possible with Depth Charge . Pyke is great for snowballing and securing kills with his ult. Overall everyone of these are great to set up chain cc.

Alistar , Amumu , Galio , Pantheon , Leona and Shen are engager. You profit heavy from a lvl 2 all-in with them since they either unlock chain cc, like Leona, Alistar, Galio with you or just enough kill threat (empowered Shield Vault + Comet Spear , Shadow Dash + Twilight Assault or Spirit's Refuge to shield u from the enemy aa). Special mention also to Shen since he is also a guardian with his ult and 2nd skill which gives him a ton of peel.

Enchanter:

Janna , Soraka , Lulu , Yuumi , Sona , Karma and Nami belong to the enchanter class. They are great to enable your scaling and peel, but overall you are better off with the engagers since those engages lead mostly to a save root with Bladecaller , with some wasted enemy summoner or even a kill. Prob best of the enchanters for you are Karma and Nami.

Guardians:

Braum and technically Shen but i dont repeat what i wrote about him at the engager. Guarians are great against poke lanes are hard matchups to secure you not getting stomped. You can freely trade when Braum blocks the projectiles and with his ult he offers some decent peel. Stacking up his stun with you to ensure roots is easy as well.

Cursed supports you dislike to lane with:

Brand , Teemo , sometimes Lux , Senna and definitly Malphite .. are all basically trolled to pair with you. Most of these aren't really supports. Senna is better paired with any APC and Lux has more of a poke playstyle, while Xayah prefers all-ins and extended fights to spread her feathers. Special mention to Malphite.. i hope anyone who picks him into support is happy trolling and spend his time in hell.

WIP

Laning Phase:

Your laning phase depends a lot on the support you have as Xayah. If your support can engage or catch an enemy out of position you can easily secure kills and snowball the game with this gold lead. Be aware if you play against a pokelane (Lethality Varus + Karma f.e.) to not take too much damage before you and your support hit lvl 2/3 to prevent an all-in. Keep the pressure always up, but keep your eyes on the map to not get caught out of position by the enemy jungle.

If you play with an poke support try to harrass the enemies as much as often. Try to force them back to the base and make them lose a lot of minion gold. Take plates to further your lead. Communicate for possible dives with your jungler (if you poke them low and get a big minion wave you can dive and kill the enemy duo lane).

If you play with a sustain support, watch for their cooldowns, take agressive trades and heal up. Careful if the enemies have an strong all-in (Leona + Tristana f.e.). Farm up your items and scale safely. Enchaner supports have good scaling for the lategame.

No matter what, play it save against agressive early lanes till they make a mistake. A lot in WR and LoL (PC) depends on abusing the mistakes of the enemy and recognizing them, so if you do, you are ahead of lanebullies and outscale them later.

Mid game:

The Mid-game usually starts when the first towers have fallen, and often you with Xayah take one of the first towers, due to her pushing power from Deadly Plumage and her insanely good wave clear from Clean Cuts . After that proceed to take the T1 midlane tower to break open the map and communicate with your midlaner to take a sidelane. This way you can quickly push out the waves and join fights for objectives (dragon, herald #2, baron). Due to having Navori Quickblades as second item your damage in team fights will skyrocket with all those feathers you can place on the ground to secure small areas (jungle paths? dragon/baron pit). You also have a 100% uptime on Deadly Plumage

Late game:

Late-game officially starts at 20 minutes with the spawn of the Elder Drake. You usually close out most matches at this time already, but yea in lower elo they might go on a bit longer.. With Xayah you usually take out enemies really quick and can one-shot most squishy enemies, but also be careful, even if you deal insane amounts of damage, you are just an ADC and get killed fast if get caught out of position. Make sure you always have a safety measure ([flash] , [xayah:ult] , [exhaust] , [stasis enchant] or Quicksilver Enchant ) when participating in fights and position around your team mates. Even if the team ain't great, they can soak up enemy key abilities to make sure you don't die.

WIP: Here will be a list of ultimate abilties you can negate if you time Featherstorm correctly, and some more or less obvious indicators.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mxHR2Sm_L5z0FbNrFoC100ALumQ0WA1uubmugaNC2gY/edit

recently provided by the WR community

Here is also a a cool guide by the reddit user kaRIM-GOudy who has a lot of cool tips to add in his reddit post about which i didn't speak

https://www.reddit.com/r/wildrift/comments/1047cfl/xayah_guide_that_i_use_and_it_is_effective/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3