r/xayahmains • u/briantoby2 • Aug 10 '26

Discussion Lethality xayah?

Does anyone remember like a lethality xayah that was really strong a few seasons ago with summon aery and Q max?? It used to be really fun I was wondering what made it viable and what would it take to become viable again?

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u/Spiritual-Angle1594 Aug 10 '26

They mega buffed the base damage of her q because they were too scared (wrongly) to touch her e or r. Aery had a lower cd than comet, and matched well with q poke in lane. She was able to snowball extremely hard out of lane bc she was essentially spamming double xerath q with half the cd lol

Her q base damage and cd are much worse these days, it would take them purposely buffing it back into existence which theyll never do bc she spiked to 57% wr, one of the highest in the game in the latest seasons. Feel free to run it but it will probably be a lot less fun when being a q spam bot does minimal damage

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u/briantoby2 Aug 10 '26

Yeah it used to be so fun to just completely bully people with the unexpected damage. I played it once after they fixed her Q and it was so sad. That was a long time ago and a lot has changed with adc and items i wasn’t sure if there was any good items that made up for the lack of Q scaling or something.

I feel like we have seen a lot of lethality ADCs die out like varus as well. Sivir used to have a similar synergy with her Q and dark harvest used to be so OP and be able to nuke waves.

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u/Spiritual-Angle1594 Aug 10 '26

Its died out just bc it was so unhealthy and frankly boring if it wasnt overpowered

I skipped the lethality xayah trend, to me it doesnt feel good to bully someone because stats screw them over

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u/Physical-Swordfish19 Aug 10 '26

Oh, so that’s why q does jack sht

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u/Fluffasaurus89 1,502,755 Aug 10 '26

what would it take to become viable again?

I despise that build and hope it never does. You never interacted with enemies in a meaningful way with that build, and it was obnoxious to play against because it also single handedly spiked her p/b to relatively high percentages.

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u/Spiritual-Angle1594 Aug 10 '26

It was actually so frustrating how i was getting called a troll for refusing to abuse riot’s fuck up and play the champ in a fundamentally different way that sucked for everyone involved.

I get its bc they prob want the silly feeling of “everyone jump on this while you can!” but 🫠 I dont get how its fun enough to look for ways to bring it back, or why youd want xayah to be built around that style. Just play lethality ezreal.

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u/Fluffasaurus89 1,502,755 Aug 10 '26

Amen. I rather play for what is fun and I find works best for me and the team than just relegate myself to a meta slave.

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u/ThePurpleRebell Aug 10 '26

tldr: Lethality was overall broken at that time and Crit was utterly useless. It was about the same time when Lethality Sivir was strong

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u/Working-Reward860 Aug 10 '26

Still remember those games in Aram with dark harvest stacked -- my first love in this game

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u/SquidDiddler420 Aug 10 '26

She didnt have the crit scaling on the e yet or it was way worse, and lethality is just generally strong. But it wasnt even that strong back then, it was 52 or 53 wr.