Why are people jungling with Xayah?

Electro522··1 votes·3,389 views

Now, I can get behind a jungle Rakan. He has shields, decent damage, and REALLY good engage for ganks.

But jungle Xayah? REALLY?!?!?

She has no built in sustain, so any damage dealt by jungle camps is essentially permanent. She's squishy, so jungle camps technically hit her harder than others. Her biggest weakness is chasing people, so how do you people expect to gank with her?

Please, don't jungle with her. You'll end up just making a fool out of yourself.

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Grymmstrike2 votes

She kites extremely easily in the jungle. Should watch some videos on YouTube of her in the jungle, it is sick.

Reaper Soraka1 votes

but muh nue champz!

Xavanic1 votes

Xayahs clear speed is actually better then most junglers, and her ganks arent too bad if you do her q' aa' e fast combo

The Last Ballad1 votes

She has no built in sustain, so any damage dealt by jungle camps is essentially permanent.

Neither do Amumu Evelynn Fizz Kindred Graves Quinn Twitch KogMaw Teemo (this list is probably short, as I do not study who can/can not jungle. If you count those with shields, but no healing, that list is even greater.). But then again, that might be why we have item 1041 item 1039 item 2032 and the new summoner 11.

She's squishy, so jungle camps technically hit her harder than others.

Because obviously she will not compare to the tank junglers(actually, she starts with more ar than Zac and Amumu, and is .04 away from Warwick, but they have greater scalings), let's compare her to her fellow marksmen junglers during the first clear.

Xayah 24 base, +3 growth

Graves 24.376 base, +3.4 growth (don't forget the 5 ar from his e)

Teemo 24.3, +3.75 growth

Twitch 23.04, +3 growth

Quinn 23.38, +3.5 growth

Kindred 20, +3.5 growth

KogMaw(he was done as Jungle a while ago, but Im not sure if that is the case anymore. However, his armor has not been changed since then) 19.88, +3.5 growth

On a related note

*Of these, who has built in sustain?

None.

*Who has aoe?

Xayah with 2 aoe skills, and 3 autos becoming aoe after using a spell = 5 instances that she can do aoe damage, which is a ton of aoe...

Graves q+autos

Teemo does his poison count(attacking once to allow the poison to tick and switching)? Lets go with 1/2 a spell, as it only does 26 damage to start.

Quinn q is aoe. That is about it.

Kindred q+w.

KogMaw His e. But I don't think that is the spell that is maxed first.

Twitch his e and w(only applies his poison though, which sets up his e)

Xayah actually has more aoe than all of them, except for Graves due to his every attack being aoe. Lots of AOE = fast clears = potentially a good jungler

Her biggest weakness is chasing people, so how do you people expect to gank with her?

Same way I imagine most jungler's do when they don't have great cc by themselves, hope that the laner does, or come in from behind. But she also has better cc than the rest of her marksman competition, as she has a root(which can be proced by q+ auto -> e) while the rest have nearsighted, a blind, or just a slow(though Kindred's is actually a good %, Kog, not so much)

thecowley1 votes

i havent thought about rankan jg, i suppose i should get on it before the nerf stick his ratios

MrOmegaton1 votes

NOoooo

Grizzlpaw1 votes

Tried Jungle Xayah clears the day after her release. The clears are honestly phenominal. Ganking wise it's similar to a Graves or even Yi to an extent. She doesn't have reliable CC (at least not on her own), but her damage is so high that she can shred you down if she can just get in range to apply red buff.

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