•Play the return-line rule: keep three feathers in front of dives, then step for the diagonal after Q so E cuts through the dash or retreat path instead of snapping straight back from where you first stood
•R belongs where the dive breaks—erase the engage spell that actually starts the loss, land with a fresh feather spread, and turn that landing into the pull back through the same body that just came in
•Bank threat in the wave and keep the recall clean, because Xayah gets more than comparable ADCs from turning hidden Q + auto feather lines into an on-time first-component lane instead of brawling every wave