User blog comment:ClariS/Why Xerath's Passive is Bad/@comment-5764133-20130318113236

For my experience with "meltman" the problem is that you are CCing yourself to gain more power as the gap can be potentially closed because you can't always snipe them form afar, a defensive steroid makes sense. If riot changes his passive would be to another utility because if you add something offensive to his already ridiculous nuking he will be too much to handle.