Assassin/Lethality Xayah seems like it could be viable

Bumblerr··1 votes·4,693 views

Now I know she's just been released, but I can't be the only one who thinks this (Unless I'm missing something and this is a really bad idea). Here's why I think it could work:

Black Cleaver almost fully procs off of her Q > Auto > E combo, and, if landed, the combo snares. Your ult can be used as an escape or and engage because of the intargetabilty. You also get MS from W which makes you inherently more mobile, especially with phage passive. The only thing that I think she lacks is the level of mobility relative to champs like talon, or zed. Though I also I think her relative lack of mobility is made up for in her ability to snare multiple targets with her ult.

This is just a theory but I feel like assassiny Xayah is a better fit for kit than a traditional adc build (Crit, AS, etc). I guess there's always the experimental phase that all new champs go through, and this is nothing new, but I thought I'd give my 2 cents.

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TheHappyReaperz1 votes

Problem is her E scales off of crit. If Lethality builds do pop up, that may keep them from being viable.

LyingOnLine1 votes

I think they linked her E damage to crit exactly to prevent this.

Not that it's going to prevent it from happening, but eh.

Reletr1 votes

I've done the testing:

Lethality Xayah: item 3006 item 3036 item 3142 item 3071 item 3147 item 3814 E Damage with 10 Feathers on the map (tested on dummy): About 600

ADC Xayah: item 3006 item 3153 item 3085 item 3031 item 3072 item 3508 E Damage with 10 Feathers on the map (tested on dummy): About 1500 (crit)

Just saying

Reletr1 votes

Also want to note that ADC Xayah's Q CD was way shorter than Lethality Xayah (Essence Reaver), allowing me to reach up to 14 feathers

ItsGoT1me1 votes

Ik this thread is over a year old, but I just wanted to say you forgot to take into account that her q and ult scale from solely ad. Which is to say that her e isn't her only source of dmg. Now I'm not saying lethality Xayah is viable or anything, but at max q rank and stacking ad, she can reach 500-600+ dmg from that alone. Also, how is her q cd shorter for crit build if the lethality build you have posted has maxed out cdr at 40% while at most the Essence Reaver build you've shown can only reach 30%? Unless you mean you can get rid of your feathers faster than the lethality build to refresh it when your q comes off cd, then yes, that is true. I like to go lethality Xayah on aram because going normal crit build just makes it way too easy and I usually stomp the games if I go that build. I max e first and q second not taking r into account, build lethality, and use Electrocute for the burst. Not that bad, and is more fun to use than the crit build imo.

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