User blog comment:Typhron/Xerath QoL changes/"Rework"/@comment-5441738-20121024041025/@comment-60764-20121025025115

To be honest? Cho's Feral Scream does more damage without a range requirement (and scales better). An AoE in a cone isn't that far fetched consider quite a bit of AP casters have them in various forms and ranges. Overall, it's pretty subpar BUT it's something that Xerath may need for better or for worse: another spell to cast that does something.

Body-blocking and other such mishaps are intended for the spell, it being a fire and forget mechanic that works better the farther you are away from an enemy. To that end it also gets trickier to 'land', something most Xerath players who are used to making people walk into his Q know how to do all to well. It might be a bit too complicated, truth be told, but? I do like it.