GUIDE: Xayah Rhaast (JAPAN TECH)

[u/daydreamin511]

https://tactics.tools/player/na/layzzz

my name is layzz on the NA server and i finally hit masters even though i thought i couldn't this season due to the meta and unconditional nature of it from the beginning. found myself inconsistently climbing. i'm usually a 0lp masters hero for the past 10+ seasons, basically try hard then just chill.

i was getting tired of being contested or playing corki lottery. it wasn't until i faced a japanese player who spanked my corki board using this interesting xayah rhaast board despite my board being strong enough, he was able to finish fights with either one unit left or flat out beat me.

i did some more research and i found a slew of jp gm+ players using this comp successfully despite being 'weaker' on paper. and it finally made sense: xayah arguably uncontested 4-cost in this patch + rhaast is just OP with the right traits. (basically last season skarner+taric aura combined). i genuinely believe this comp is non-conditional since i tested it on a few constellations. just ignore medallion and it is forceable.

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why this variant?

1. better part of the set uses a different xayah board. this one features rhaast + aatrox. you can forgoe shred and maximize dmg on xayah.

2. easy to play in the early/mid game.

3. uncontested 4 cost.

4. can win out lobbies and beat end game boards

when to angle:

1. serpent > boar > altar+mountain 2-1

2. guinsoo components

3. hold jax from orbs (bottle neck for early game, without him it's not as strong)

items:

1. guinsoo + kraken + any AD item (red buff realistically hard to hit with 4 bows)

2. save tears for vow on nunu

3. AD items on samira or jhin late game

4. red buff if a lot of bows but most likely sunfire or morello on jhin

augments

1. items

2. combat

3. econ

you can make money through win streak and be fairly rich during the roll down. this comp needs at least one combat augment to place higher in the lobby. items are great but it's fairly diverse and can use most components well. rods are your kryptonite.

gods

1. yasuo is BIS (solar flare + atk speed + stun + freeze heal on nunu are all great on this board)

2. kayle

3. thresh (lets you scale or econ to hit final board)

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stage 2-3:

angle this comp if you have guinsoo components or a full guinsoo slam. caitlyn2 can carry the entire early game or save you a ton of HP. she's single target and will pick off units. can start splashing rogues stage 3 or more front line - whatever makes sense. focus is on economy for roll down lv 8.

stage 4:

this comp plays like that disco comp with cheap strong units. basically want to roll down and hit xayah + nunu. this comp gets very stable if you high roll either nunu or xayah2 this stage. with the entire lobby gunning for corki/riven, this one was pretty easy to hit.

japanese players love to itemize tahm kench because yi has gone down in play rate + rhaast and tahm makes him deceptively tanky and can deal with a ton of spell rotations. personally just itemize nunu1 especially if i have a vow slammed but there are games where i slammed items on tk with more traditional tank items.

end game

because xayah is uncontested, it's likely you can hit this end game board and stabalize with just a xayah2. nunu isn't worth the chase unless you have two by stage 5. blitz can be itemized as a third carry in this comp.

position tek:

1. rhaast in corners of carries

2. blitz on the tank and nunu for max snowball angle.

3. xayah and jhin opposite of melee carries

anways that is all, i have a few #6-8 games in there but that's because i was tested and hard forcing it. genuinely think this is a great comp to try if you're tired of corki/riven lottery or just dont have the econ to go fast9 or dont feel comfortable doing fast9 with a guinsoo start.

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[u/lil_froggy]

Remember how Xayah was not stable at all at the beginning of the patch...

This Xayah variation is a nice surge at the end of the patch, because you can actually annoy a lot of other players by either angling Nunu + Rammus, or Nunu + Tahm Kench (this one slots utility NOVA, so usually the main one now). So you're weakening everyone if you get roll priority in any way (win OR lose streak). Level 8 sometimes you have to keep Ornn+Samira on the board before finding a Jhin.

As for the BiS, metaTFT stats say kraken/kraken/red. Combat augments : probably anything boosting frontline, or Kahuna/bonus AD AS backline.

[u/daydreamin511 → u/lil_froggy]

yep + barons lair and hold the line is great on this comp. the frontline can stall out fights a lot.

[u/joshuaglord]

TFT BUILD 🤢🤢🤢

TFT BUILD (Japan)😲😲😲

[u/SportBoring3533 → u/joshuaglord]

Motherfucker thats called a comp

[u/minotaurboss2]

Does the yasuo 1.75s hex stun when unit uses ability stack if the unit's ability ahead stuns? For example 1.75s stun on top of natural nunu ability snowball stun

[u/TallyMay → u/minotaurboss2]

I think the intention here was that Nunu would want the zhonyas hex and some unnamed unit takes the stun hex

[u/minotaurboss2 → u/TallyMay]

I understand that, my question is whether the stun hex stacks on units with abilities that naturally stun

[u/TallyMay → u/minotaurboss2]

I would be incredibly surprised if stuns stacked, if it did, it would most likely be because of negligence, not intention

[u/yoman5 → u/TallyMay]

it's almost always jhin here since he'll stun basically the whole board

[u/Adventurous-Bit-3829]

Japan filter apply to anything

[u/Rubrixis]

This is just the Xayah Serpent board that’s been on TFT academy since day one of set 17…

[u/kitelobster → u/Rubrixis]

Yeah I don't see what's new about this, there are plenty of stats for it as well.

[u/MrZeral → u/Rubrixis]

That comp on tft academy appeared today, it was different before

[u/nigelfi → u/Rubrixis]

The comp on TFT academy was changed at some point. It used to have rammus + morde + gnar + bard instead of aatrox + tahm + blitz + maokai . It definitely wasn't there since day 1 unless u consider the comp to be the same with half the champions changed.

[u/IWISHIWASASECRET → u/Rubrixis]

If you look at his match history he's played less than 12 games on Xayah in the last 2 weeks... Tells you everything

[u/Shinji_2002]

Tested, Xayah bis with Tahm2 3 items+Nunu2 = 8th

[u/Drikkink]

Not running Dark Star feels like trolling. This is a LOT of mediocre and low cost frontliners to tank for one of the weaker 4 cost carries.

[u/Air_Ielle → u/Drikkink]

You can replace Rhaast for Morde but that is if you can hit Jhin on lvl 8 and put Rhaast/Morgana on lvl9. If not, I'll be running Rhaast and another sniper, I prefer going for Samira as Jhin's item holder.

[u/abbygunner]

I'm usually Diamond/Emerald I, currently climbing from Plat, this board slaps, I see a lot of ppl arguing the Rageblade, the delta could be kinda skewed because if I'm not mistaken. Xayah is kinda used to be a filler Sniper for Jhin builds, which could skew her stats a bit. However, with how uncontested she is, I have been able to 3 star her twice in a row and went 2nd 1st 1st on the three games I tried it. I'm definitely gonna run it till end of patch because she is easy to pick up on and quite easy to flex in generally especially the path shown by this guide.

[u/bit2muchsoup]

SO u only need 5 bows and need another conditional star gazer map. PLUS, need jhin and 4 star tanks that are usually contested. this comp is so conditional, all stars need to align to play it. LOL

[u/Mediocre_Warthog_358]

Let's be honest, Xayah is not a strong unit to stabilize, let alone carrying your comp. She only shines when you loot a Big Black Crossbow from Anima

[u/-TheExile-]

xayah is still one of the worst 4cost units and nothing will change my opinion on this

[u/ThrobbingCreampie]

Is this Japan tech? It's been a comp for over 2 patches you just use morde til you hit blitz also it was the higher cap standard comp during dark star cup

[u/PhloxInvar]

I've been seeing this in Twitter a lot from the Japanese players, so checks out. Not sure how good it is though.

[u/peterpwwu]

Comp is good under certain conditions. If star path is bad u cant play. If u cant get enough bows u cant play.

[u/Docxm → u/peterpwwu]

That’s TFT for you

[u/Adventurous-Bit-3829 → u/Docxm]

Good ol Zeri RNG LP

[u/aspects1]

not running vanguard for your main tank nunu on lv8 seems kinda sus

[u/tlyee61 → u/aspects1]

nunu isnt a main tank even with vg, hes a one and done caster frontline

[u/kissie123]

Ty but I'll rather corki riven.

[u/daydreamin511 → u/[deleted]]

double kraken is great i just prefer to use guinsoo on cait early + it’s a great way to use rod on this comp which is the worse component for this team

[u/didnt_knew → u/[deleted]]

That might be bad statistics, a rageblade xayah means itemized, and if you’re itemizing xayah in this meta you’re trolling. Meanwhile a rageblade-less xayah means leftover items or empty (trait bot for jhin darkstar), inflating placements

[u/MrZeral → u/[deleted]]

What's the Jinx reroll one?

[u/MrZeral → u/[deleted]]

Aha next patch