User blog comment:ClariS/Why Xerath's Passive is Bad/@comment-210.186.169.44-20130318024148/@comment-4881935-20130318025439

As I say to many people, ask yourself this, does it make sense that a tanky champions is in the backline trying to avoid all damage from the enemy team. One of the safest champions is also one of the tankiest in a team.

Why does a long range champion who is sitting in the backline being given huge tanky stats while a champion who has to jump in the middle of where the battle is taking place gets less.