Talk:Xerath/@comment-8921599-20140212001535/@comment-5266525-20140212170806

They tried that. It ended up with Morgana syndrome where Xerath just sat back and power farmed from 1000 range and didn't really bother doing anything meaningful.

It's hardly shoehorned when it's carefully constructed to both allow some windows of opportunity in his gameplay and is the reason he's allowed to have all those 1000+ range spells.