User blog comment:Freedfg/What happened to variety./@comment-5686533-20140428170105/@comment-24893267-20140502172738

Xerath is like Lux 2.0. He has very consistent high damage and mana regen in the early game. You can poke out pretty much any enemy mid and push them to their turret. By late game you just continue to nuke the enemy team while your team mates kite them and bam suddenly one of them gets caughte out and you get off your whole combo. This 5v5 poke fest just became a 4v5 slaughter down went the bruiser. Next the assassin. Then the adc and support and finallly the tank is running home to mama because he had the tenacity to live.