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@AnyPbePlayer, Questions about Xayah

Hencho101·4/10/2017, 12:07:09 AM·2 votes·821 views

So I've been intrigued by Xayah. See I've always kind of been an ADC main and love the role, but the problem i have is people KEEP diving me ALL THE TIME and it can get kind of annoying at times, and Xayah looks like she has some good self peel/damage and looks good in the team fight faze. But i don't have a PBE account and can't test her out so i still have many questions about her: How is her lane faze? Can she play well w/o Rakan? Is she a DPS adc or a burst adc? Is her damage even viable? How is her teamfight faze? How is her tower pushing capability? How is her self peel? How does she do vs an assassin? How is her dueling capability? What build do you use? What kind of lane does she play?(Poke, Sustain or agro) What Supports work well with her other than Rakan? So if anyone who has games with her answer some of or all of these questions that would be awesome, thank you in advance [slayer-jinx-wink]

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what you deserve4/10/2017, 12:42:01 AM1 votes

"yes" to everything

ScissorsNstuff4/10/2017, 1:42:27 AM1 votes

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How is her lane faze? Can she play well w/o Rakan? Is she a DPS adc or a burst adc? Is her damage even viable? How is her teamfight faze? How is her tower pushing capability? How is her self peel? How does she do vs an assassin? How is her dueling capability? What build do you use? What kind of lane does she play?(Poke, Sustain or agro) What Supports work well with her other than Rakan? So if anyone who has games with her answer some of or all of these questions that would be awesome, thank you in advance [slayer-jinx-wink]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68b1JnhOSOM

YoungSirJ0ey4/10/2017, 4:10:51 PM1 votes

So, let's see.

Her laning phase is fairly good, although you do need to manage your mana well or risk going oom.

She can totally play without Rakan, Rakan gets more benefits from them being together than she does.

She's quite similar to Kalista: Technically DPS, but with heavily backloaded damage that requires lots of setup.

Her teamfighting is great, because your E's damage doesn't fall off from hitting multiple targets.

There are better ADCs for pushing, but she's pretty OK.

She has great self peel, what with her whole ability to go invulnerable and snare people.

Against assassins, she can peel for herself, but likely won't actually be able to kill them.

It isn't great. Her self peel is good enough that she can escape, but with few targets, she has a difficult time setting up enough feathers to kill.

For builds, I'm not sure if Essence Reaver + Phantom Dancer or BorK + Black Cleaver is a better core build for her, but I think Death's Dance would be pretty good on her.

In lane, she likes to poke with her passive and Q, which allow her to hit from quite a range.

I have no clue what other supports work with her, because everyone also wants to try Rakan. Supports who can poke well are probably good, though.