Why NO ONE Plays: Xayah and Rakan | League of Legends 

This whole video sounds like a healthy champion design for the game automatically makes a champion unplayable. lol

When you meet a Xayah main randomly as a Rakan main and vice versa, both of you feel like you're destined to be together lmao. I have had so many Xayah mains adding me after games

Rakans ability to dance around the lane and harass the enemies is something most supports cant do, which is why he is great

"Lane bullies can be shut down by picking Malphite" _Furiously scribbles notes_

They were clearly overnerfed. Even if they're not played as much as before, they still have pretty respectable play rates around 4%.

“Rakan can dash from a full screen away, charm you and knock you up in the blink of an eye” Oh my

Xayah has to play around the feathers to do damage and has a nice R that sets up a lot of feathers. The sad part comes when you realize that you are better off saving R as a defensive tool than using it offensively

I genuinely believe that the ONLY reason xayah is unpopular is that she is underpowered. I feel as if she weren’t nerfed due to pro play, she’d be a very popular adc.

Tbh I love playing Rakan, as his style just clicks with me. The whole point of his existence is to cause disruption, and with good teamwork, there's not much the enemies can do.

give them another passive when theyre single. just a different set of augments to make up for the missing ones when theyre together

It's sad that Xayah had to be nerfed because of Pro-Play and Rakan's Passive had to be nerfed bc of Yuumi.

it sucks cause they have the potential to be strong, but since the nerfs started coming through (as well as new champions) they've kinda been outclassed

Vars: Why NO ONE plays Xayah and Rakan Me: *sad rakan main noises*

*Sees the duo* Me who plays Xayah: *Cries in Hobby Lobby feathers*

I feel very bad for my girl Xayah because for this whole season she has had a 47% win rate so I pray everyday for Riot to just buff her already.

The Xayah buff I've always wanted is just a 550 attack range. Even if her clean cuts feathers have the same range they do now, I think that an increased attack range is the most useful buff she could get.

I like playing Xayah because of her ass-kicking atitude and her interaction. I also love it when I root the whole enemie's team and then everyone just jump into that feast.

I love the way Xayah plays, aswell as her kit it just really feels comfortable to me and I love playing her. It’s just at the moment with her 47% win rate she just isn’t delivering. Riot really need to buff the pair.

"... These two were realeased at the same time just a little over 4 years ago" holy shit this hit me like a truck.

Tbh it’s surprising for me that Rakan has such a low pick rate because he really fun to me Like how can you not like sprinting into a whole team with Shurelya’s

I remember the good old days when i learned how to play the game, i picked rakan while my friend picked xayah, i was really bad and she was really good, somehow she never get mad at me, and i end up improoving really fast

Me being a Rakan main: Is this some sort of human joke that us Vastaya can't understand?

The fact that Rakan and Kai'sa got matching world championship skins in season 2019 says a lot about how the Xayah-Rakan duo is doing PS: they didn't fix it since then

“He can charm you and knock you up in the blink of an eye” Promise?

When I first started playing league of legends I instantly fell in love with Xayah, everything about her resonated with me and when I had enough BE I immediately bought her. But it's been a real struggle, not only finding someone that even remotely likes to play Rakan, so we can duo, but also with the nerfs she got, the new store and right now it seems like almost all the ADC are getting some type of buff besides her. Seeing so many Rakan mains in the comments is honestly a huge surprise, like where have you been all the time, do you hide or something 😂 We should seriously create a discord server or whatever for all the Rakan and Xayah players across the servers to gather around to.

the comparison between Rakan and Leona’s CDs told me that Leona needs longer CDs

They could buff their base stats for a start like Xayah's basic attack range and Rakan's health and/or armor and magic resist.

dude you produce so much good content so quickly, so underrated.

We need a “Why people SHOULD play this champion.”

I just realised this vid can help xayah and rakan mains meet and duo together. Thats so big brain

Rakan is the embodiment of "A jack of all trades is a master of none" : l

i still see a lot of xayah, she does something other adcs cant, her ultimate is an amazing protection against assasins if you have a support to react during the invulnerability

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

I main support and love Rakan but I feel like the Xayah Rakan synergy goes deeper than just their ability bonuses. For example, Rakan highly appreciates the root xayah gives him for an easy engage set up. Xayah also appreciates how Rakan can go in then go out to assist for her if she was in danger :)

Yo I’m so hyped I was just thinking about xayah and rakans popularity

As an m7 Xayah and Rakan player, I have to say that I love how accurate this video is to my own thoughts, I had always thought Rakan felt like he was more of a jack of all trades and that xayah's feathers make it very difficult to do much against targets that aren't locked down, and I'm glad to see that somebody who has covered half my champion pool in WNOP is still pointing out shortcomings that I have noticed, and it isn't just me playing the game wrong

As a Xayah main, there's nothing more frustrating than watching someone pick rakan when they have no idea how the champ works, just because they think the lane is "OP". IT'S OP WHEN BOTH PLAYERS KNOW WHAT TO DO....

“And because, you know they’re a couple” so I should be expecting a why everyone plays senna and Lucian?!

What if they had a different bonus/change when they were without their partner? It could reflect their personality when they are alone. Like sure, they get stronger when together, but maybe when alone and missing their second half, another part of their kit works differently? Something to just make it a choice, do you want them paired together or do you want them apart?

I would give them a soft rework: Xayah: gets +50 attack range when holding feathers. This attack range buff is permanent when playing with Rakan on the same team and she doesn't need feathers for it. Rakan: Keeps the +300 increased dash range when playing with Xayah, and it's just always-on with her. However, he also gets that same dash range buff if he or an ally has less than 50% health. They both can also continue to recall together. These kinds of synergies are just: these champions can get the buffs normally, but just more consistently or permanently when playing together. It's still unique to them, but I do not think that the increased uptime of that will severely impact their viability to the point where they NEED each other to be viable.

If they’re too strong together then just nerf the buffs they get for being together. Just nerf the bonuses they get for operating as a pair so it’s more of a cute gimmick than a crucial part of their function as champions.

Rakan is 90% of who I've been playing lmao

Xayah requires you to play around your feathers and why make it so difficult when you can play kai’sa, samira or tristana to instantly have a much bigger chance of winning?

bro I’m a support main that has m7 on Rakan and have for a while now and that’s because he’s amazing, but when you play with a random Xayah it feels like you just met your childhood crush who just said they like you back, it feels bloody amazing

I love the design of Xayah and she is one of my favourite adcs to play whenever I'm looking to mess around with friends. Riot could maby reduce the ult cooldown on xayah because that is what I most often strugle with. Not having ult up. It is such a long cd for an ability you need to survive 3 seconds if the enemy team has any kind of hard engage or assasins.

I main Xayah and I love her :3 The funny thing about this video is that you can easily setup feathers because most of the people don't care about where your feathers are and just get rooted out of nowhere XD.. but i loved the video :)

What I like about Rakan is that he can fulfill the role of an engage support all while technically being an enchanter. I really love playing enchanters but sometimes I really need a good engage when I get an aggressive adc like Vayne or Kai'Sa and Rakan just really helps a lot in those situations.

They could give them some more broad synergy, the same way Yasuo can ult from any knockup, Samira can extend any stun and Seraphine can improve any CC the enemy already has, stuff that can work with any character, but just so happens to work well with each other. Like "Xayah grants buff to the last person who shielded her" or "Rakan gets extended cast range based on ally attack range" and "each can teleport back with any ally, but only if they recall within the first 2 seconds of channel, and if together, the passive stacks with itself, extending it to 4 seconds" Plus, it would be funny seeing either Xayah or Rakan awkwardly dance around a recalling ally.

Xayah is my favorite champion in lol and one of my mains, too bad she's been in a bad spot :(

Hi, i've been playing both Xayah and rakan for a while and here's what i tell my friends everytime we talk about these characters i think the best course of action to help the couple perform better is to allow them to put their unique passives on anyone, similar to Kalista the idea is that at lvl 6- if Xayah or rakan is being played without the other- they should be awarded a feather of trust, which would be a one time use item similar to knights vow that would give one person on your team your special passive (does not have to be the adc, if rakan wants to dash to a tank he could i guess). However, if rakan and xayah ARE played together, they will both get their unique passives from level 1

i have never loved a champ as much as i love xayah. she is extremely fun to play and ends up dealing so much dmg, so tbh idc about the low winrate as long as i can have a fun game with a champ i love playing. her personality, the mechanics and her kit is amazing

Xayah is my main and i love the fact that i have to keep track of the feathers, is fun XD. I see the problem, but me and my bf play a lot and if u play them well u can really have a good game. But its true that they are weaker separately. I think Rakan is more easy to play with other Adcs then Xayah with other supports

I don't know how to change Xayah, but if Rakan got a shield when using his e, it might help to make him slightly less squishy

I feel like small changes to xayah could be increasing her range so she can peel a bit better, or like at 5 stacks of feather she throw out to feathers so she can root better on her own. With Rakan maybe his w does like health percent damage so he can build tankier for more sustain.

I know this is about PC League of Legends, but ever since I started playing Wild Rift, Rakan has been my main and now I'm Platinum. I don't know the power difference between games, but Rakan is absolutely viable in WR.

I've seen literally 1 rell outside her release week, can't tell if I have wonky luck or she REALLY needs an episode lol

A couple of days before this video got released I started spamming Xayah. I'm currently at a 70% win rate with her and have played her for roughly 30 games :3 I'm absolutely in love with her design! My best friend who's a support main decided to try out Rakan and atm it's our absolute favorite combo to play! I'm almost mastery 5 only missing about 1K mastery and once my friend reaches mastery 5 too we plan on gifting each other the star guardian skin for the other's champ :3

As a Rakan main, I can't wait to watch this. I love my boy.

THIS EPISODE FEELS DEDICATED TO ME AND IM SO HAPPY

i love these two champs. i literally ask friends to play either of the two and i will play the other. they are so adorable and cute i just love them both so much. i do however love playing rakan the most of the two because i am support main and also his playstyle is hella fun. also tho anytime i do see a rakan or xayah being picked on my team and im support/adc i just have to pick the other.

Rakan is underrated af , only Xayah is problematic imo

Well maybe riot should just add a passive effect, when they're played seperately that'd help them overcome their weaknesses whitout eachother. They could even call it something sweet like "missing loved one" or somethin idk

I was able to found your channel because I saw your WNOP: Azir and I used to be an Azir main. This series is so informative and I really like your criticisms in every champ that you put in the series.

I miss the old ROTMG days but i'm so proud of what you have achieved with your new league vids, hope you're happy with your new video style vars

I'm a xayah main and I wish more people picked her up she is amazing once you get the hang of her her feathers feel so fun to land

I instantly fell in love with xayah when she was released... it was really sad to see her downfall and that she's unplayable rn

your content is of such high quality wow keep up the good work babe 💛

Well, u forgot something: “Jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one."

Lemme guess Raken: Too reliant on coordination to be a soloq champion, too easy to punish since he can't tank, terrible numbers bcs he's a Jack of all trades. Xayah: She's always in the low side of the charts because Riot keep her numbers low so she won't become dominant on pro play, she misses the old Essence Reaver, not as simple to execute like other marksmans

They could make their passive sinergies a quest instead, something like senna vs thresh... Idk rakan could heal a certain amount of hp to xayah to gain some bonus healing and so on

That Blitzcrank hook at the start had me scratching my head

I discovered your channel a few days ago when "Why no one plays Quinn" popped on my youtube homepage. This channel is literally one of the best League channels ever

I'm a big fan of the character. Even if their gimmick ends up making them niche, they fulfill a really cool unique role in the game unfilled by anyone else. Kind of like how Yuumi brings a whole new gameplay element to league (even though a lot of people don't like Yuumi lol)

This video really perfectly details the reason why this duo needs some sort of change. Even just a minor change to them individually and rework one of their synergies as a result. Pro play also is a big part of why they got nerfed so hard, unfortunately. I have onetricked/mained Rakan for 3.5 years - I started out by maining Xayah when they came out, because I was an adc main in Season 7. When I became a support main, and discovered how fun he was, I became so much better at League and I learned the flow of League so much more easily through playing him. However, the past year or so has been pretty rough on him, and it feels like he has hardly any agency anymore - and I'm not just talking about the W speed/Flash combo nerf. His armor isn't what it used to be, as you stated, and everyone walks out of his abilities before they can catch up to him unless you are using 1000% of your brain power and outplay every single time. I still love Rakan, and will continue to play him regularly, but it's a shame to see the two champions struggle for so long and Riot is just ignoring it.

I love everytime I heard Sonic and the Black Knight OST in your videos, that is such a nice video game OST

i main xayah and i've been asking for a while for a no one plays xayah,thanks bro

I'd say the best way to help Rakan is tweak his passive to increase his ability to survive. Maybe they could improve the scaling and cooldown or they could make it give extra (Scaling) MR and Armor while its active.

I'd rather have them be just ok than Riot removing their synergies, ruining the whole point of their identity

i've been waiting for this video, thank you!

Maybe an anti-synergy system would work. If Xayah/Rakan are on the same team but one is dead they get a "heartbroken" debuff. Less attackspeed for Xayah, reduced jump range for Rakan, or something to that effect. This would allow both champions to exist without each other on the rift, yet be more powerful as a duo. The counterplay is simple, kill one and the other looses some power.

11:36 As a Rakan primary main and Xayah secondary, I would like to note that even if Rakan cannot W or Flash after R he still can engage out of screen as quick as he could before because his E doesn't get that nerf. Of course it is riskier for Rakan since he needs to R way earlier and can miss the combo much easier but it is still somewhat there. The old combo would be: E R Flash W and E for disengage if needed and the new now is: R E Flash W and E for disengage if needed All that assuming he is the second engage, so he can use E first, else he is much weaker since he needs to W R instead of R W which means that he needs to give the opponent a window to escape his W instead of using R to secure it.

Being a Rakan main in Season 10, it’s really hard to return to him. I love the man, but the little problems with him (cool downs being long, weird buffer times between casting and landing W, and R being practically useless at times) really get me down. My boy needs some love, but, “Love is SO cruel” -Rakan

It's bittersweet watching this video as both a xayah and rakan main. Keep up the great videos👍

Me just chilling as a Rakan Main. Good video!

Honestly, their synergy is the problem imo. By designing the champions so explicitly to work with each other, their numbers (Xayah's at least) have to be intentionally crippled to keep them from dominating on their own. I think the best thing to do here is to distribute power away from the abilties that buff each other in exchange for higher base numbers. That or remove the synergy entirely.

There was a Rakan OTP in na that hit challenger in S10 ~ Dice Bot, guy was Smurf

Ahh- I love both of these champs. Rakan helped me with anxiety about making plays and going in, he made it fun, and okay if I failed with his confidence. Xayah is just fun- especially with attack speed items 💕

finally, someone spoke up about xayah and Rakan's issues in laning, also, I just want to point out that when you try to use the color setting to see where xayah's feathers will land just tell riot they need to get better at adjusting the color setting a bit.

What about why everyone plays Lux next?

Simple deal, if they are alone, they have a buff, but less strong than when they are together, and when they are together, they just lose that buff to get their synergy buffs, tadaa

NO WAY OH MY GOD I'm still on the ad for this video and I already love it

I only recently came back to the game after 4-5 years, but I sure wasn't expecting to see Xayah on here.

The largest problem with ADCs this season is that DPS crit based carries got totally screwed over by the new items and crit damage changes. The most dominant carries (Kaisa, Senna, Jhin, Vayne, Tristana) have built in % health damage and/or crit modifiers, and they rely on burst damage and outranging the enemy. Compared to other carries', Xayah's bread and butter combo takes too long to set up, and doesnt deal a ton of damage until you're 3-4 items deep. By that point, Jhin has probably already snowballed with Galeforce +Collector.

6:18 can we talk about how long it took them to kill that kayn??

As a rakan main with over 1 mill in lqn server i cried when you remind me of the old instabt charm w flash combo

I just started playing league around 3 months ago and tbh I hate the game but I’m addicted and loving these vids

Xayah main here: Rakan aside, being able to dodge and peel for yourself means everything in everything in solo que. The root can make a world of difference in a season with such strong assassins. Even with Rakan, I never saw too much of a difference positively speaking as opposed to other engagement supports.

I would comment on Xayah and Rakan but the fact that somebody like Xayah is in a relationship makes me sad and alone

Great insight. Thank you for the educational video

As a Xayah main, I couldn’t have explained this better for both my bird babies