As an ADC main, I must say Xayah must be nerfed

This thread is a discussion about Xayah and to open up opinions on her. I am an ADC main who does not ban Xayah nor do I usually face her or struggle against her. However, I do abuse her and I know how strong she is.

Just like Vayne, when she had a 30-40% pickrate and a 51% WR, she was nerfed.

As someone who plays a lot of ADC and abuses Xayah, I believe the best way to nerf Xayah is through one of the following:

• Nerfing her E damage
• Decrease her health to 490-1700
• Nerfing her AD growth
• Halving Ws AD steroid
• R ultimate CD increased
• Significantly higher mana costs

Only one of these nerfs are needed and I personally would like the W change. Xayah's strength stems from her ability to burst squishies with her E, kite with it, zone with it, melt tanks with it, and chunk enemies with basic autoattacks at the same time. In addition, her ultimate is a very good safety tool. I absolutely love when the enemy picks Zed against me.

In Vayne's case, Vayne was bursting squishies and tanks at the same time. Thus Riot took the liberty to nerf her R damage and AS growth which put her in a relatively good spot.

With Xayah, I would prefer the W nerf since her ER powerspike is one of the best spikes in the game in my opinion currently. Her W offers a steroid of 20% increased AD, 50% attack speed, and a burst of movement speed if she attacks a champion. Thus, she can easily pressure and use her AA-Q-E combo to instantly root and kill an enemy. The W nerf would keep her lategame but nerf her early where shouldn't be exceeding so well. She's the only ADC currently whose strength is top-tier in almost all phases of the game. Which isn't good.

Due to Xayah being so strong early,mid,and late all at the same time - I would like her W scaling nerfed early to give her a weaker early or her E damage significantly reduced early on as it's the skill she opens up first. (op.gg link to confirm http://na.op.gg/champion/xayah/statistics/adc) Winrate never falls below 50% at any time and she's the 3rd best ADC early game ironically when she shouldn't be.

You can also disable the "delayed root" mechanic where Passive-Enhanced-Autoattack+Q+E roots an enemy and only make feathers that hit the enemy at the same time root the target. But this takes away skill expression which I wouldn't like.

I would do this as a combination:

• Decrease W damage increase to 15%
• Increase Q mana cost to 70 at all ranks (makes her prefer to conserve her combo for all-ins else she'll lost significant mana or CS)
• R cooldown increased to 160/145/130 from 140/125/110 (Allows assassins to kill her/punish her more often)

If she falls too low in winrate, the next patch can buff her cooldown to 150/135/120.

If you only want a single nerf, then I would say only increase her R to 180 early game but allow her ultimate to be at 120 CD late-game at rank 3. This is due to her having too much safety with her feather zoning and R being a jail out of free card.

Here is what happens typically:

• Xayah positions in teamfight
• Assassin comes in but Xayah has Phantom Dancer, Ninja Tabis, and Deaths Dance with her ultimate
• Assassin does no damage due to items and ultimate
• Team pummels Assassin

I hope these suggestions do spark discussion and allow you guys to use them to state how you want her nerfed.