User blog comment:ClariS/Why Xerath's Passive is Bad/@comment-3475363-20130317204647/@comment-96.39.224.44-20130318001442

My personal oppinion on this is that while it helps give him some more utility I feel that because he has to land his stun which is a target nuke its a little weird. I mean I release my combo in around 1 second for the stun. That means that the times where this would be useful would be when you throw chains on a target and they run in a bush. But most of the time you can ulti or Q anyway. The times where you reveal a target by seeing them walk in a bush and you Q them to reveal then E RRR would work, but its sorta rare. It also doesnt add much to his game play. As it would only really work for his Q. I think something along the lines of "Xeraths Ascended form gives him the ability to connect directly with the arcane giving his spells a arcane stigma, upon landing additional spells the stima will stack max 3 times. Upon dying will deal 100 damage per stigma to nearby enemies."