User blog comment:ClariS/Why Xerath's Passive is Bad/@comment-141.136.247.196-20130318144506/@comment-6485849-20130318152437

His Passive doesn't even contribute to save his life anyway. Any well seasoned Xerath knows that even when getting attacked by a AD that it'll still hurt like hell. You say people should remember gap-closers or stealth. For Xerath, he shouldn't be anywhere close to the fight for any reason, even if the fight begins on him.

I have never been saved by the passive simply because when a gap closer is used on me, everyone gets a turn battering me down and killing me. The scaling itself isn't enough to be viable, especially in the new LoL with BC's and LW's.