Happy to know the guide was able to help you!

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

With Yun Tal Wildarrows first you'll naturally feel way more mana-starved compared to just going Essence Reaver. 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.

I will be making some changes to the item builds in the coming days, this to include both Yun Tal Wildarrows & Essence Reaver 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. Xayah 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. Kraken Slayer 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.

Glad you enjoyed the guide and oh wow I didn't notice that part. Yes Essence Reaver > Navori Flickerblade > Infinity Edge is still one of her most go-to build patterns. Ideally you could run Yun Tal Wildarrows > Infinity Edge 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 Essence Reaver). B. F. Sword won't be needed up until you're ready to build your Infinity Edge.

Glad to hear you enjoyed the guide. 🙂

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 Bloodthirster, Immortal Shieldbow and Guardian Angel already do a good job of covering if it comes to that.

Lethal Tempo coupled with Essence Reaver 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. 💜

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

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