I'm a Xayah/adc main, and I want to know if it is just me or if it feels like Xayah has become non-viable after the most recent patches. I thought I was completely crazy that I was getting countered by every other adc. I know Xayah already had quite a few counters which is one of the reasons I chose to main her. She was a challenge, but now it feels like she has been thrown under the bus. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Xayah still has a place - you just have to keep an eye out. Even when Xayah was "trash" (because most players were looking at her as a crit based champ), some players were having some success and climbing on her by building her as a lethality-based champion (I think Ankle-spankin made a note of this trend in one of his videos.)
As for how she relates to the new ADC items, I'd keep an eye on the pro players. She has already a ppeared a few times in competitive play - and she has not done too badly.
Lastly, I should point out that a lot of her favour has been due to the pairing of her with Rakan. He did take a heavy hit from the nerf-bat recently - and that indirectly hit Xayah, But while Rakan is tanking, I don't think this is a good enough reason for Xayah to be given up on...
I agree with you a couple weeks ago on my main account me and my friend where doing bot as xayah and rakan and I started to notice that until I got ie I was doing no damage. So I think the recent ie and stormrazi really hit her damage pretty hard and thus comes from the guy who liked the true damage ie and not the shitty ass original one because there's no penalty for rushing ie now again and you basically have to do that now with xayah or do no damage and I don't even like rushing ie to begin with as it feels cheap an to easy
Yeah, the patch made it so you have to rush IE with her.
