Xayah

Xayah is a marksman who doesn’t need a babysitter. Rated 10 for attack, she’s an ADC built around Feathers: blades she throws across the lane, then pulls back through enemies to deal damage and crowd control. That gives her self-peel and area damage that most bot laners simply don’t have.

Her passive, Clean Cuts, turns basic attacks following an ability into piercing hits that hit every target along their line, and each one leaves a Feather where it lands. Double Daggers launches two damaging daggers that scatter more Feathers, while Deadly Plumage wraps her in a whirl of blades that raises attack speed and damage and grants movement speed whenever she strikes a champion. Her rhythm is ability, empowered auto, ability again, all while kiting and planting Feathers across the ground.

Cashing in the Feathers

Bladecaller is where all that setup pays off. Every Feather on the field flies back to Xayah, dealing damage to anything in its path and rooting enemies that get tangled in enough of them. Good players angle their attacks so the return route passes over key targets, which turns ordinary trades into root threats. Featherstorm rounds out the kit: she leaps skyward, untargetable, and throws a spread of daggers that drops another wave of Feathers. It can slip past a critical enemy ability and immediately fill her with a massive Bladecaller.

Xayah is a good pick for players who want a marksman they can steer: she depends less on a support to survive dives, rewards careful positioning and angles, and can punish overextended assassins with a root she sets up herself.