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I've been trying out some new builds for Xayah in the preseason, she's been having a bit of a rough time but she isn't a bad champion, and I've discovered a build that I really enjoy the feel of and makes laning a much more pleasant experience.

I've found the Lethal Tempo builds for Xayah really lackluster, sure you get off a lot of attacks but your early game feels terrible and in the world of tanks I always feel too slow and too weak to actually do anything in the mid to late game. So I went for Fleet Footwork instead, it gives healing and movement speed which makes it way easy to sustain in the early game, and gives you a better chance of running down or disengaging from enemies.

A recent buff to the AD of Stormrazer made me consider the item for Xayah, slow and bonus damage is really huge early on and it's only 2700 for a decent stat stick with pretty handy extra effects.

Just with these two changes to her build I've had a lot more fun and a lot more success in games, and have usually kept them pretty short thanks to the early and mid game power the build affords.

Give it a try, I reckon if you're somewhat familiar with Xayah this playstyle will be a nice alternative to the standard build.