Talk:Xerath/@comment-95.180.43.210-20120511014329

Reasons this hero is rarely played:

- lack of aoe crowd control

- lack of a reliable escape mechanism

- lack of a strong nuke on a short cooldown (like nida's javelin/ veigar's meteor/ anivia's ice lance "crit")

- really low damage when his ultimate is not ready

- mediocre damage even with his ultimate, only a fraction of Annie/Leblanc/Veigar/Ziggs's destructive potential

- underperforming passive (about 15 armor on every 100 AP, with regular diminishing returns on stacking armor benefit)

- lack of a self-sustaining spell (combined with a horrible lack of aoe cc and mobility, this is awful)

- extremely reliant on teammates to "hold the enemy at bay" and give him room+time to fart lightning

- no chasing capability; once the enemy escapes your (not so impressive) range, he is completely safe from you.

In short, this hero does way too low damage to justify his immense weak points.