User blog comment:ClariS/Why Xerath's Passive is Bad/@comment-5859769-20130317203627

This is well worded, and I agree. Ideally, he'd have something to encourage his long range nuking potential, or his siege mode use. Right now, the passive is there, but it's very nonsensical on him, like putting Nidalee's passive on Alistar or something. It has nothing to do with how strong or weak it is, and everything to do about how dumb it is in the context of his character and kit.

Some of the responses to this blog post hurt my head, though.