Note: Account was hacked, had to redo some content in the guide as person deleted, moved, trashed parts of guide.


Hello, I'm a Gold 2 player with the summoner name Entrako. I have been playing league for quite a few years and have a passion for the game. I primarily play mid and ADC, but after the release of Xayah I decided to make this guide to help people learn and understand this wonderful champion.

Xayah was released 2 days ago as a spellcaster marksman for the botlane, and I have been spamming her since. No one seems to know how to play her, or against her yet which has lead me to go as far as getting a pentakill on Xayah already! This champion is very intuitive and unique which brings a very enjoyable experience into your games. If this is what you strive for, this may just be the champion you are looking for; strong for ranked, and fun for normals! When played with Rakan, Xayah gains a situational recall buff and Rakan gains empowered auto attacks from Xayah's W and the enhanced situational recall.

This guide isn't as pretty as the most of the top viewed guides, but at least you're not listening to some bronze player. I'm not going to go pointlessly in depth and make a paragraph about every single point you place in every single mastery, because every level 30 player should know why to place points in Ferocity rather than Resolve... This guide will instead teach you what to do and the reasons behind that. Along with what not to do and the reasons behind that. Good luck!

PROS

1. High Damage - Burst, Sustained DPS
2. Ability makes you untargitable - Uneffected by cc and damage (excluding pre dealt DOT [e.g. red buff])
3. Has CC which can root multiple targets - Bladecaller
4. Can hard carry
5. Cannot be insta killed if played correctly - Featherstorm
6. Special buff interactions with Rakan
7. Multi target
8. Great wave clear
9. Great to kite with - has Bladecaller to snare any chasing enemies

CONS

1. Immobile - No dash, blink, jump
2. Easily Caught
3. Targeted
4. Some bad matchups - e.g. Caitlyn
5. Setting up feathers requires time
6. Revolves around feathers

When playing Xayah, you are going to want to max E - Bladecaller. This is your main damaging ability and is the best option of the three to max in terms of damage and utility.

Next you are going to want to max W - Deadly Plumage. The attack speed scaling that you acquire from this is good from 30% up to 50% and the reduced cooldown from 16s to 12s helps you a lot. With reduced cooldown on Deadly Plumage, you are attacking more which results in a faster output of feathers and damage as this in turn synergises with your E - Bladecaller. By having more feathers out in a shorter amount of time means that you can use E - Bladecaller faster in relation of how many feathers are out resulting in more damage.

Lastly, you are going to want to max Q - Double Daggers. This is for a number of reasons. The base damage on Double Daggers is terrible and the scaling is no better. At level 5, Double Daggers is gaining an extra 160 base damage which is negligible in comparison to the benefit Xayah gets from her W and E synergy that they have with each other. This is also the only feature you get from levelling up this ability so it's just not worth it. Levelling this ability first is just a joke...
E - Bladecaller and w - Deadly Plumage synergise well with each other so points aren't worth spending on Q.

I checked the front page of the other top Xayah guides and they all recommended maxing Q apart from one fellow that recommends to max W... These people have obviously not put a lot of thought into this and shouldn't be taken as seriously.

TLDR: If you have a brain max R>E>W>Q

Thanks for reading so far! A like would be appreciated to help promote the Guide so other people can see and benefit from it! If you have any questions, concerns, or critiques just leave a comment and I will get back to you soon! :)

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