Talk:Xerath/@comment-188.129.50.94-20130327103809/@comment-163.191.194.60-20130329133418

Unfortunately, shouldn't and doesn't are quite different. There is the role of anti-carry (AD most likely being zed, kha'zix, and jax) where their job is to kill the carries. The passive helps. Helps with a lot of jungle ganking. Someone just feed top lane? build a zhonya's. only AD is moderate ADC? Build CD or MPen or MR as secondaries. One death at the wrong time will lose a game and Xerath needs to be answered mid to late game and so will be targetted.

His passive isn't for the laning phase (barring zed/kha/jayce/etc mid pick), it's for the mid-late game when assassins are chunking down/killing people.

There really is no problem with this passive at all. You might not prefer it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't go well with him (lore - he's made out of energy, that should be less damage; logic - artillery is generally placed in a fortified position; gameplay - simply helps, whereas he can break almost any possible offensive passive and a sustain passive would make him an absolute terror to lane against)