Saber's Xayah Mechanics Guide

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[@xFSNSaber]

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[@rosegetizo8775]

While this is a old video it actually taught me you can flash then e for a root even if the the feathers are stupidly far apart that it looks almost impossible to root

[@itorres008]

Good one! Thanks! And thanks to You Tube for allowing me to slow down Saber to 75%. 🙂

[@MsSimon247]

Yvonnie: "Make a Xayah guide" Saber: You essentially press W and they die Yvonnie: **Ranks up to Masters**

[@sambidhandhungana1920]

He is Doublelift u noobie saber just stole da vid broo

[@yukochavez]

That not yvonne i thibg thats chocobars or igumdrop

[@airpls2822]

@@yukochavez he literally said it's for annie

[@joshmm223]

This sort of video should become a series for every adc.

[@Cahrdek]

Well most adcs dont have combos like this xd Just rightclick better

[@Suppy842]

this guy is so good at teaching the community and i am so grateful he has been so persistent these last few years attempting to be one of the good eggs in this swamp of vapid , emotionally empty lost souls

[@albertevans1600]

this guy is calculating some trigonometry to land his e's

[@mateoikica3893]

As you should.

[@MrLastlived]

If you arent breaking out the math compass are you even playing Xayah

[@rozeblack200]

as a xayah main this is the most beautiful video i've seen lol another tips i'd add is 1- to use w on turrets because you can get at least 1 plating and even 2 if you have a big wave. 2- sometimes when the enemy is running away on low hp and your Q is barely out of range you can't kill them. But if you Q + E you can get a slightly longer range on your feathers cause when using E, they lean back before returning to you, so they still hit. I use this Q + E combo for reaching enemy a lot of times and it got me many kills

[@preheatedcandy9285]

perfect timing, I was looking for a xayah guide and this was the first thing to pop up

[@Stickerbrushes]

I literally just submitted something on Reddit with the same thing, consider this an early christmas present. Thanks Saber! www.reddit.com/r/xayahmains/comments/di4625/what_are_4_things_you_can_say_that_would_help_a/

[@GivemeaSecond]

Can we get a mechanics guide for all Adcs?

[@flipper1222]

GivemeaSecond would be good

[@eetuparkkamaki]

Why the fk you need mechanics guide for adc xd learn movement and when go in and clear 2-3 enemy

[@Digger-Nick]

Press A, left click, right click. Repeat.

[@GivemeaSecond]

Hugh Jass Wow the disrespect

[@lovelyyolk9066]

Most adcs really don't have too difficult mechanics, just auto attack them to death, kite, and depending on the adc do something else, example varus, get a skill between each 3 auto attacks.

[@bobbuilder-k2t]

A trick about Xayah is if you are in a matchup or for any reason have to play super safe, your E has a back hitbox, meaning the range it damages is further than Q range, can be useful for last hitting from range or even to bait enemies into roots since they don't think the feathers will hit.

[@mattamponah2597]

Cleanest explanation of a champions mechanics I have ever heard

[@dakotakade3547]

So, I'm new to ADC this season since top is a goddamn useless island of uselessness and I've been trying to learn more ADCs. Currently a Jhin main. This guide helped me SO MUCH to realize that I was playing Xayah SO WRONG. Thank you.

[@millionaiyer]

the first section of the comment xD

[@chillbro2275]

Wow this was eye-opening. I am not a good player and have not gotten my head wrapped around xayah. I wanted her to be my back up adc, but I may need a simpler one for the time being. Very good job Saber and Game Leap

[@mathijsrikken]

I am a Xayah main and one quick really easy combo i often use in early game is one single Q -> E combo. In early you often just dont have enough damage yet and it leaves your opponent with 100 to 200 hp left. Do the Q -> E combo to finish them at full range of your Q which is ofcourse a longer range than your aa. You dont want to root them. You just want to finish them with two feathers and E at a long range.

[@vortexb-sian328]

im trash at league. im iron but i got Star Guardian Xayah for free from some event so now i wanna play her lmao

[@xayahtrinajhinie8690]

you're so lucky！！！ I'm a xayah main and I never got a xayah skin *sad*

[@ominousflames14]

@@xayahtrinajhinie8690 i just started playing LoL last week.. and i love xayah, she is my main

[@LazeRiT55]

I just bought it x) Now I wanna learn play her, my mains are Jhin and Aphelios

[@defaultpfpwithafly7504]

I got xayah's cosmic dusk skin for 1 rp lmao

[@caitsithism]

@@defaultpfpwithafly7504 how did that happen lmao

[@Flowersyn]

Never thought of E Flash, gonna try this in my games now

[@louaimehena5575]

you can't be serious that's the basic every adc main knows it lmao

[@Calcapwn300]

@@louaimehena5575 and found the reason people hate league. You

[@LazeRiT55]

@@louaimehena5575 lol eksdee everybody knows that favourite Kai'Sa's fruit is peach but you r not LMAO WTF OMFG

[@mateoikica3893]

How..

[@Flowersyn]

Mateo Ikica that was 8 months ago when and I’d only Be playing league for 2 months at the time

[@ericmancas7264]

A quick tip that I'm not sure was covered, if you're fighting in the jungle for instance, if you send your feathers OVER a wall and the enemy doesn't have vision on, they can't see the feathers, so once you auto attack with W all they will see is maybe 2 or 3 feathers, because some ended up over the wall and if you also q early for some extra damage and feathers over wall, they think that there will be a minimum amount of damage taken and will all in you, when in the middle of fighting they forgot about the extra 3 or 4 feathers hidden over the wall, which can be your ticket out

[@sweetweebygoodness8693]

I just bought Xayah earlier today. . . Is this what it feels like when people say they were talking about something in their room only to get an ad about it later?

[@Ultimahaxorpanda2131]

It might've been coincidence. To my knowledge as you give you microphone/ camera/ computer permissions to google or other search engines, they essentially use it NOT JUST for whatever you're doing in that current moment + other features, but they also use it to easily market stuff you like for your and their convenience sake. This specifically has been one of the main reasons people struggle to trust the internet as you may have deduced and of course, it's considered rather unethical.

[@Fluffy89]

Best tip I can give is a ranged root, around 900 units away from you. Take a bit of getting used to but you Q the minion wave/enemy, having the feathers from q land just behind/o top of them and then auto attacking a minion/enemy to get the third feather out for a root. Provides a good way for the support to chain cc from a long distance, and her root lasts long enough for you to run towards them and use her w.

[@trashbag4741]

Can we have a Kaisa items guide? Such as manamune and stormrazor. They can both be built no matter you are building ap or ad on her.

[@euwpredator862]

MMM LLL i wish he makes it It’s my only struggle with kaisa

[@elyuli9]

there is one on /r kaisamains but is not from saber

[@MK4owns]

Yeaah, and when to build AP or AD

[@ImmortalLegacy]

@@MK4owns build ap when ur team is mainly ad and build ap when ur team is mainly ap XD

[@ssplosionz]

manamune+pickaxe for cheapest q evolve, but takes more items to get e evolve. stormrazor+rageblade for q and e evolve.

[@marynnmarble7872]

Thank you so much for this video! You explain things so well and paired with the edits, the instructions are super clear.

[@cmck362]

At around 10:00 that combo is _very_ likely to root through sivir's spellshield so it's good to know in that match up. Basically sivir's spellshield has a duration. It'll block multi hit abilities, but if there's too much of a delay the spellshield times out. When you watch that clip you'll notice that the combo is auto Q E all in rapid succession. The first feather will fly back with E and damage them. Then the Q will pass through them. Finally the Q feathers will be pulled back after they finish landing. If sivir spellshields the first feather of the E it'll time out before the Q feathers hit for the root. If she waits until right after that the Q itself will absorb the spellshield, but still place the feathers. Sivir is forced to spellshield between the Q hitting her and the Q feathers which is a very small and delayed window compared to how xayah's E normally works. I don't expect a sivir to ever get this on purpose.

[@rickydubs600]

Something I found useful is knowing max feather combo to know you’re maxing out damage on a tank or objective is q auto auto w 5 autos then e (if I remember correctly)

[@cmck362]

One too many autos. You only need 1 auto after the Q to make room for the extra feathers with W.

[@bloodcraver9183]

Absolute max feathers is Q, auto, w, 3X auto, ult, 5X Auto, E. This combo requires a certain attack speed to do it before the first feathers from q disappear. Not usually the most practical but it's nice to know max damage with E. Additionally, its safe to cast E after you ulti since you'll still get a high value e out of it so maximizing damage falls second to maximizing survivability. Also, It's good to note that Ulti after 3 autos wastes some of the uptime of W which lowers total dps. The combo before is just faster for ensuring max feathers before pressing E. It would be better to have used 5 autos before ulti and then auto 3 more times before E rather than the first combo.

[@tokyosailor2752]

The most clear and useful guide i have ever watched, thank you dude :)

[@keivanmomayezadel2881]

I love that in a Kai'sa dominant meta, which everyone wants to play here cause she feels strong, you make other ADCs feel strong too. I love what you are doing. pls keep covering more ADCs. you are a good coach and you make things sense.

[@kbampanikas6070]

BEST CHAMPION GUIDES IVE SEEN ON YT thanks so much man!

[@fynnkwast2745]

great guide! all in all in helped to understand the champion! just as a sidenote: 20:04 "ulti to dodge something" *dodges nothing just uses ult for damage*

[@tyalk_3565]

good video I have over 360k points on xayah but I could still learn something. As I started playing xayah, u got an autoreset after u used ur q so the obvious combo was q+auto+e to get an 3feather root. This kind of stick with me until now and I never rly thought about it but I think now its much more efficent to use ur q after already placing a feather like u showed in the video, its seemed to be much easier to line up the feathers and u become more confident hitting it. I defeneatly will have to practice a lot to get rid of my old style, but I think this could rly improve my overall play. In my opinion u didn't mention enough the strengh of ult+flash in my games I use flash on at leat 30% maybe even 40% of my ult to make sure I have the perfect position which I think is rly important. U can increas ur chace of hitting a lot and u can get out of nearly everything when combined with flash.

[@maxstout2981]

Hey @xFSN Saber, any chance you might want to add an update video for Xayah, now that they buffed her Q and the Xayah lethality summon aery build is getting so much play? You're the man for making all this amazing content. Mahalo :)

[@hmmnotsure]

I'ma Xayah main with Mastery 7 that I got at only 34, 427 Mastery-Points 😃 This video really helped me👌🔥🔥🔥

[@ozsvartkaroly]

One combo that wasn't mentioned and I like applying that: When I want to trade, I sometimes do the following: walk up to AA range, start AA towards them, immediately Q, then one AA into E. This way they are rooted and I can blow my W to kill them. Or, same but faster with using W early: walk up to AA range, when you see you are in AA range use W into immediate Q and E. They are rooted and you still have your W up.

[@acemajor]

not sure if you captured this in the video... but you can do Q + Auto + E root. This is good for EARLY lane phase at level 2 before you get W.

[@kwadens9309]

yoo idk how ive never seen you before this was such a good and well explained guide

[@Kingstorm1337]

I would love to see a Jhin mechanics guide. I main him but I feel like I'm missing some things. Great video, learnt a lot. Keep it up!

[@campiione]

not much to it,, u can learn from IkeepitTAco

[@TuanMinh-lw9wu]

Yeah KeepItTaco guide is very good as well

[@ninex9631]

There is a combo q then aa and then e but you need to be closer then your aa ranger to him becose your feather from aa will just be at ground so (it is a really fast combo when u can do a 3 feathers combo and then you can w and kill )

[@ZeusScoon]

Thanks. This video helped out a lot!!! I feel my Xayah is improving!

[@jofbob]

quick thing I'm not sure you mentioned regarding xayah e. the feathers will actually hook forward a bit, creating a curved path, rather than just pulling straight back. so for example if you q-e quick combo, even if the q doesn't hit the enemy as its right at the end of the range, the e recall will. its a sorta obscure mechanic but can catch people off guard, and I've gotten a few cheeky kills from it

[@arkouda6672]

THE VERY VIDEO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. I I can finally get tips on my fave champion.

[@gabrielcostanovaes9328]

the best tutorial so far for Xayah! thanks bro for this video

[@l3aRaK]

Nice guide. There's something I think you missed and is very underestimated. Xayah's QE combo is super strong (especially as a lvl 2 power spike). Assuming you can't all in atm and you want to abuse xayah's low cooldowns, just QE for like 150 damage early on. You can also do it quite safely from within the minion wave etc.

[@imagamer45]

Thank you for the mechanic guides of xayah!!

[@testval]

this guide felt like 5 mins, do more of these videos saber great job!

[@solaris-sieghart]

I was about to quit playing ADC then I saw this. Guess I'll try harder with her.

[@Mewethan]

One of the best tutorial I've watched!

[@alexandreduquegondimpires2599]

The best resource for Ad Carry in KZbin!! Congratulations and keep up the good work!

[@Aditya763Raj]

Saber you are one of my favourite league KZbinrs now!!! Keep the good work sir!

[@sly-fi6502]

IMO the hardest part about Xayah is having to learn and remember every champion's " turn plays".

[@nathangrubbs6783]

Immediately went 20/7/14 after watching this guide. Quality.

[@catofwar2459]

to root someone does the 3 feathers need to hit at the same time?

[@Mugetsu1GO]

Since your last Caitlyn guide, I have been improving a lot on her! Got like 20+ games win on her in ranked. Thx a lot Saber

[@skyknight1748]

Hi new to League and loving adc role aswell as Xayah thankyou for the video helped me allot cant wait to hop in and rly try to ingrain the lessons from the vid into my gameplay ^.^

[@shalamanov_ivan]

bro ty so much I had the biggest improvement in LoL so far

[@charlottee87]

THANK YOU for your video, I watched it yesterday and I just did 13/0 I was so strong! And only third time Xayah, amazing!

[@sheprsokyo9848]

I've decided to switch from Supp to adc a few weeks ago and was looking for some Cait main, i'm really happy i've find you. You're not just good with cait but also super informative, enjoyable to watch (with a weird constant joy coming out from you) and have been my guide on adc, Thank you dude.

[@akrepp117]

"To find the Root" YOUR NAME SAKE REFERENCE AMUSES ME

[@phoenix6890]

Saber roleplaying Tokiomi with how much he wanted the root.

[@thomaspham3239]

Thanks bro, was gonna start playing more xayah so this helpful

[@martenkask5624]

Once my team was super bad and I thought I have no change to winning, but I was with my premade support, we were 2v5 and we managed to pull out quadra kill together, but their ad carry managed to somehow escape with 30 hp but that lead us to perfect comeback in ranked. Xayah is a champion who can easily turn the game upside down for good and also for bad :DD I've been playing ad carry for almost a year and I've found Xayah the most useful ad carry champion in this game.

[@rolazael1014]

One little tip that's probably not that useful but good to know, is when you throw Q when someone is right on top of you, the feathers will deal the damage during the pick up animation instead of the throwing animation.

[@dnavas7719]

Amazing guide. Thanks a lot.

[@brandonellis5614]

Good review actually explained and gave good examples

[@BattlewarPenguin]

An advance guide of Xayah would be nice too

[@osho4540]

good video, i understand xayah a lot better now and i might start playing her

[@wardcollector2503]

Great guide. Thank you.

[@finestdynastyi4308]

I just got a star guardian so I am starting xayah also because she seems fun

[@ShewDieBro]

Thank you this helps so much before playing it first time on ranked and i absolutely demolished the enemy team :D

[@illusry7631]

Thank you so much. This video is amazing, very helpful examples and explanations.

[@schorsch5499]

thank you so much it helped me out so hard

[@arkouda6672]

Do you max w or e first? I've been maxing e first for the longest time, but because you give so much importance to w, I've been thinking that maybe it should be w that should be maxed first.

[@Brendan2906]

If you max w first you're literally trolling

[@arkouda6672]

@@Brendan2906 hahahahaha, who knows we might have been wrong along, but yeah, for now maxing e would be the most practical.

[@lasselinow9558]

PLEASE make this for Vayne...

[@BlackPur91]

Is it better to go IE after the essence reaver ? Or going for an attack speed item ?

[@GamesCourier]

This is such a great video, thank you so so much for it. I hope you are planning to make more of them or that you lose more often in poker ^^

[@luneseishin11]

Is that Yvonne's stream in the beginning?

[@theeddy1296]

Really good guide, thank you

[@Kikomii]

I’m a Xayah one-trick and one thing that truly frustrates me with new Xayah players is how they use their ult. Your ult is the most important part of your entire kit since it makes you completely invulnerable to incoming damage except for dots. I see TOO MANY Xayah’s using their ult’s aggressively. The only time I ever use my ult aggressively is when I feel like I won’t need it within it’s cooldown. So many players use it to get the root off on a large group of people, but it’s so much faster and you do more consistent DPS when you just W Q E. Try not to use your ult aggressively unless you are POSITIVE you won’t need it { which in most cases you will }.

[@ohmahrie]

Ok

[@reviewcrewforyou]

Incredible video man. I learned a lot thank you! I also feel like this is going to take 1k hours to learn

[@rook7968]

Both max items and same level. Ashe press Q. Xayah press W who burst down who? With no other abilities used scenario 1 and with all abilities scenario 2.

[@xFSNSaber]

easily xayah, w is broken. If you want to compare adcs late game, compare their time to kill: for example draven killing people is like 2 auto attacks at 6 items, whereas ashe's time to kill is like 3-5. A lot of it is dependent on what abilities are landing as well

[@PerihelionmQQn]

I"m having trouble CSing with Xayah, her clear seems really slow in the beginner levels and really weak (compared to Tristana who is the only other ADC I play right now, whose passive makes her clear faster), is that just gonna be something I have to figure out the tempo of or is there a special number of hits or trick? lol

[@xxPsychusxx]

this was a really helpful video, ty man

[@cstriz4802]

Good guide, I do have a general question. Is there anyway to use target champions only and " A" click together? Ive been using target champions as a toggle and can still hit minions when a clicking. Thanks

[@erttis3253]

no there is not. can't you just right click?

[@nemopolitan]

This has helped me allot many thnncs.

[@peperoniezflakers719]

im waiting for Xayah on wild rift i got interested on Xayah she seems very cool

[@Illmatic1994]

Very helpful mate, thanks a lot!

[@leek_san]

I learned how to cs with Xayah as I started around the time right before Xayah and Rakan was released, as she was my only adc I self-taught myself how to play Xayah and learnt to hard carry with her as no one would ever want to adc in low elo. This made me suprised when you say that Xayah is one of the hardest to lane with as I cannot get used to any other adc. After 3 years of playing Xayah I am confident enough to challenge any Xayah for a 1v1 and yet I cannot hard carry with any other adc. Xayah is just the one champ I can confidently lane with and am willing to take risks with compared to any other champs as I have a mentally drawn damage chart of each level and item. As a Xayah main, I think that an important tip is learning how to pull off a stun while running. It is easy in a lane but it is a bit harder in jg as you usually only have the enemy to throw your feather auto. Being able to do this is extremely important as you would never want to waste your ult in a situation where you are running unless you are absolutely sure you can land the feathers or need it for dodging an ability. It's very easy to engage with Xayah but slightly more difficult to disengage as she has no movement abilities unless she is kiting with w or flashing. Thanks for reading my short essay..............

[@BS-se4yg]

Can we have a guide for Jinx, please?

[@cheyhey2170]

minigun if close(more dmg then rockets) rockets if 2-3 items+aoe teamfight+longrange trap on yourself if someone goes onto you, can use traps to zone, keep them until you really need to use them. ult is a "prediction" thing as usual, had a fight and both parties are low, but u have ult up? get into the bush (or just out of vision generally) and THEN ult where u think they are. use zap in between autos unless you use it to catch someone to slow so ur teammate can follow up. ur welcome :`)

[@neferet2345]

I main xayah but you can never stop improving uwu

[@benjaminchiron9205]

What about the interaction Q + Rapid Firecannon + E for a quick stun?

[@Snapslol]

Yes this exists, your point?

[@brunofrohlich4054]

hey i really needed that, thanks i aprecciate it

[@matija2062]

RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT?

[@thalesmoreirasantos3069]

well done, ty for the guide!

[@vinlolship3308]

Nice video can we have a Tristan's mechanics guide

[@Kaeselord98]

You helped me very hard so ty :)

[@versutus2699]

So is Annie diamond 3 yet?

[@IwasKiddinggg]

Do you start with q or w level 1

[@chojinacd]

Wow., such good content!! I love these man. Open up a patreon, and make these for all adc`s or champ matchups plz!

[@lewisclark3456]

Bruh, my brain doesn't work this fast

[@lohanburnett9369]

so should I max E or W first?

[@toxicshot4528]

this is reeeaaallly helpful, thanks!!

[@Gdumal]

love ur guides

[@misosoup1998]

Tried to fight Aphelios with my W, even when i was a level and an item ahead, still got clapped xD Really need to learn wtf that champ does bruh

[@supermule4474]

well it's pretty simple what that champ does right. He right clicks you and unless you're maokai you die. If you're maokai, he might have to right click a couple more times.

[@andrewzheng4038]

If he has chakrams or pink gun you can't win a fight against him (especially if he uses his pink gun rapid fire ability), but if he has flame thrower, sniper, or slow cannon he's honestly easy clap. Even then if you land the root on him he dies instantly because both white and pink gun require him to be closer than your max auto range for him to do maximum damage

[@kenchen704]

You dive him, and make him run instead of do damage. It’s what adc are all designed for, they are designed to go in and fight, not run back and do the same damage. If you get a kaisa or a vayne to run instead of come, you’ve won half of the fight

[@mateoikica3893]

The clownage

[@mateoikica3893]

@@supermule4474 If you int, sure!

[@Robert-ce3oz]

So... When to go in?

[@OfficialNoCoast]

Ayyy saw my boy Metaphor in the beginning.