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Such a well made guide! Attention to detail is so much appreciated

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Happy to know you like it! Glad to see it's able to help others on how to play her.

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Hi! Amazing work! You should write guides more often, i have played on and off since 2016 and never done well except in lucky aram cases. read thru the guide since i main xayah and typically barely hold my own (and im better w her than other characters!) just went 24/4/5 Hopefully the streak continues!! you rock!

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Happy to know the guide was able to help you!

Well done on your win, let's hope together. :)

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Hi! Amazing guide. How do you deal with mana issues if you want to build Yun Tal instead of ER? Thank you!

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With first you'll naturally feel way more mana-starved compared to just going . Best way to deal with it is to manage your ability usage, don't default to clearing waves with Q+E or wasting abilities & mana if you require that mana elsewhere e.g. for trades - Yun Tal wants you to AA more. If you whiff feathers often, you'll get OOM way faster, if that is a reoccuring problem for you and you struggle quite a lot with managing your mana pool, you're probably better off just sticking to buying ER instead.

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Thank you! I struggle to see the immediate benefit of the extra AS of going Yun-Tal before ER, but I'll give it a few tries while keeping my ability usage in mind. Thank you so much!

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Think of it more like this: Going Yun Tal sacrifices ability haste & mana for more AS & thus the potential of a bigger damage output whereas going ER is a more safer route that aims to keep you healthier in lane for mana while not sacrificing as much damage for it.

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Heyo, love you guide, its very well designed and written.
i got a question on the build path. i would like to know, if yuntal isnt just the better item to build first, because you get a lot of attack speed, some ad and crit. Or why shouldn't i just build cellector in games when they dont have any tank?
i would love to see your opinion, maybe in the guide as well, on why you shouldn't buy any of the other "core" items of other adc's.

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I will be making some changes to the item builds in the coming days, this to include both & as the 1st potential item to build. Her build has always been the same except her first item choice as it has been changing over the course of the recent patches.

As for collector, I don't think building it first is a good idea, even against squishier targets. If anything you'd still run ER > Collector or Yun Tal > Collector if they don't have any tanks to at least get something to work with. is quite unique in this way as she doesn't build other "core" items that other ADCs build in the same way, because her kit just doesn't synergize with those items. for example, is a terrible item for her and doesn't help her at all compared to what say Yun Tal would be able to do.

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ok cool, i was for a long time someone who said, i dont need ER, because i dont really have big mana issues and because of that i build yuntal if i get a 1300 back and else the collector :D

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ER isn't bought for mana anyway. The only plus side of is that it just has a much better build path than . If you're not willing to greed for Yun Tal or you're just getting obscenely zoned in lane I'd consider ER over it anyday of the week and it isn't close. I think Yun Tal is the default item for her, and for most if not all ADCs, but that doesn't mean it's a default choice in all situations and I definitely wouldn't run Yun Tal if I'm not clearly ahead or at least even.

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This is a beautiful guide, the time, effort and thoughtfulness is clear! There is one thing that i think may need updated thought, Under the section first back you said "The best basing scenario is when you can afford B. F. Sword which can be used to build into Essence Reaver on your first base " bf sword no longer builds into essence reaver, is it still an ideal first buy for the other items later or should we rush the essence reaver? Thanks again for the guide!

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Glad you enjoyed the guide and oh wow I didn't notice that part. Yes > > is still one of her most go-to build patterns. Ideally you could run > as well as your first items, completely skipping ER entirely but I'd say this is entirely based on personal preference. The latter one with ER is used a lot more.

I have altered the text to remove the B.F. part, you should actively be building towards your first item (in this case ). won't be needed up until you're ready to build your .

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Gorgeous guide, absolutely brilliant

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Glad to hear you enjoyed the guide. 🙂

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Major updates to the guide:
- Matchups

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I would really like to know your thought process on why you settled with the flat health shard over the scaling health shard with . Wouldn't the added hit points (from the ) be a good thing in case games go longer games. I mention this because at level 7 you get 70 health with the scaling shard compared to the flat health shards value of 65 health at rank 1.

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The core difference between the two shards is that one gives you immediate health at level 1 and the other is scaling health of which you'll only see the full effect at level 18. Flat health is a lot stronger during early lanes and against early aggression than 10 hp would ever be. It's true that at level 7, scaling health will already give you a bit more, but botlane is almost always decided already once level 6 is over. Whoever wins the early stage will be allowed to do whatever they want for the later stage, having a sliver of more health when you're already completely losing and your bot tower is destroyed won't do you that much when the enemy paths to midlane to do the same with their lead, and statistics suggest others agree as well.

I don't see a reason to sacrifice early sustain for 100 more health past 30 minutes when health is almost irrelevant. At the end of the day ADCs are squishy champions, a little bit of health isn't going to make the difference in whether you die or live. What you need is sustain and survivability, not health, of which items like , and already do a good job of covering if it comes to that.

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I don't disagree with your analysis on the two shards, though I would say that sometimes one health item or an extra health bonus can sometimes make a difference in the right matchups.

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I find that hard to believe though. Other roles could benefit more from more scaling health, but when it comes to botlane matchups you really only have 3 options. Either a) win the lane easily cuz the matchup is easy so health doesn't matter, so then why not just go early and win b) matchup is even and you want early sustain to just play for even lane or c) you face , the only brutally difficult botlane matchup in which case you either go flat health for the early lane or you dodge.

One health item probably could make a difference in the right matchups, but shards? Probably not really (again if the struggle is to survive, / always exists, but the only time this struggle is immense enough to need it, would be hard matchups like Draven or ones like Lucian/Nami).

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Fair enough.

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Why PTA and Kraken's instead of Lethal Tempo and Essence Reaver?

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coupled with is the correct build. 14.19 changed the build a bit and also reintroduced Lethal again to the game. With that said I forgot to change the build to fit the new one that people are already making use of with Lethal. It should now be correct though. 💜

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ty! i'm planning to become mono Xayah and your guide helps me a lot! (sorry for bad english, i'm brazilian)

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No worries, and sorry for the confusion before! I hope you'll achieve that goal of yours. 😁

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This graphics is fantastic! It's very inspiring to do something just as beautiful!

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I'm glad to hear you're able to enjoy the guide.

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chef's kiss

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💜

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Major updates to the guide:
- New look compared to the previous iteration
- Most sections, especially the gameplay one is revamped
- Entirely mobile-friendly (or at least should be)

Matchups will come at a later date.

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Hey Fruxo,
you sure worked a lot on your Xayah guide from when I saw it two days ago.
I love the new look and that you enabled to hop back to your table of content after every chapter.
It's very visible how much work, time and effort you've spent on this guide.
There's probably not much to add to make it even more perfect than it already is. The only thing that comes to mind is that you could create a new chapter explaining how to play with or against certain champs and what items you would get. However I would focus on the most picked match ups first. Furthermore this is only a very optional thing to do because you already have such a compact match up section with ADCs and Supports.
Another suggestion would be to create a Gameplay sections and explain how Xayah's gameplay could vary from early to mid to late game and what items and playstyle (aggressive, defensive etc.) you would recommend.
Apart from that I already think that your guide is pretty awesome. Keep up your great work and I'm looking forward to more of your guides. :3
Cheers, Wicked Cherry.

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Hi again,
Thanks for the feedback!

I was thinking at first to make a custom matchup section just for that, but im lazy (like most others) So i focused way more on the matchup/counter section that already existed before i made my chapters. What i can do is find some more information about some champions to make my current matchup/counter section better.

Gameplay section..
I could certainly fit that in somewhere of course, i will keep that tought and see what ill do. ^-^

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