Xayah appears statistically balanced, but players feel like she lacks agency. We're looking to make her base spells more available, giving more access to her spellweaving fantasy and more juicy W-auto uptime. These changes will also help her spread her wings and not be as reliant on Essence Reaver.

We're updating Xayah's E to care about crit damage and adjusting her E's overall damage profile to be more reliable and less snowbally.

While Rakan's been making waves, Xayah's been sitting on the sidelines for quite some time. We're looking to bring up her feather damage to help her cut through her opponents.

Xayah is just a touch weak right now, so we’re bringing her up her ability to apply sustained damage.

Xayah's a little weaker than she should be and has completely fallen out of contention in the ADC pool. As such, we'll be reverting some of her recent ability nerfs now that she doesn't have the same ability haste and damage that the old Navori Quickblades provided.

Xayah has been dominating Pro play recently, and she’s also performing well in high levels of play in solo queue. Since Xayah has the most defensive ultimate out of any of our ADCs, we'll be targeting her early game to give her opponents more of a counterplay window while keeping what makes her unique. To accomplish this, we'll be nerfing her base health and buffing her health growth, which will make her more vulnerable early, but will be a buff to her when she's expected to have more survivability post level 6. We'll also be increasing the early cooldown of her E, as this is an ability that's especially utilized in high levels of play. Our goal here is to reduce its power in lane but ensure it's still just as strong once she purchases Navori.

Xayah’s buffs in patch 13.1 ended up going a bit too far, bumping her into the upper echelons of AD carries. Players are finally catching on to her soaring power levels, so she needs to be addressed. We’re happy with her higher attack speed, but she’s simply dealing too much damage right now.

Xayah isn't quite up to snuff compared to other marksmen and her attack-focused builds are weaker than more casting-centric ones. A moderate increase to her overall attack speed should help with both of those issues and help Xayah find her wings in the bot lane.

Xayah's lethality build has risen to dominance in both Pro and solo queue, and its poke patterns unfortunately don't offer much counterplay in lane. Since those builds tend to max Q first, we're hitting its rankup incentives to make lethality Xayah a little less appealing.

While we're happy that Xayah has lethality options, they've been overshadowing her crit builds. The Rebel's gameplay is healthier and better suited to her identity when she builds at least some attack speed, so we’re increasing the crit scaling on E - Bladecaller to bring back her fast and furious feathers.

We've carefully buffed Xayah quite a few times this season to help her non-Pro performance, but she's still pretty weak across the board. Her damage is already pretty sharp, so we're buffing her ability to set her feathers up.

We're back with a third round of Xayah buffs! We've been steadily bringing up her winrate while trying not to increase her pick rate in Pro too much. The rebel hasn't taken off in Pro play yet, so we can still give her a bit more room to fly. Xayah's Q tends to interrupt her basic attack flow at higher attack speeds, so this should let her feathers glide more smoothly throughout the game. (For Q's scaling, remember Xayah gains 70% bonus AS from levels and 55% from W!)

Xayah’s been dragging behind the rest of the flock. Some spice should really let her feathers fly.

Xayah has been feeling weak in all levels of play, so we’re fluffing her feathers by giving a good-sized buff to her Q, which tends to be maxed later in the game. Our intention is to buff her in a way that benefits all Xayahs, regardless of which ability you choose to max first, while also helping those who decide to max Q first stay more competitive.

Xayah is having a hard time right now. In addition, since Essence Reaver is now a less appealing first item for her next to Mythics, we're helping her access her key ability more often and earlier.