Talk:Xerath/@comment-26203093-20150316172904/@comment-24191440-20150327173219

As a xer main I can't truly tell you how to counter him, but I can give you experiences on where I had the hardest time.

There was this really good fizz one time. If i tried to poke he would use his fixed dash to dodge using a minion. If I chargd my beam for more than a second he would go on me. When I released it He would hop on over to me, negating any damage I would've done, and womb combo me as he tridented me to death.

Or this one was unexpected: Heimer mid and Kalista ADC decided to switch lanes. Oh my god every single fucking thing I threw, hop, hop hop. Ult. Hop. E. Hop. W. Hop. If I charged Q she would find the opportunity to hunt me down. The second she hit her first auto I knew I was gone. I went 6-12-8. T'was a tragedy.

Last but not least was Vel'koz. If I went in, he would poke me with Q and W, so I had to charge up my Q to last hit. When he saw this, he flashed, used tectonic disruption, and wombo'd me. I melted. I couldn't even push because he had better waveclear than me.

I noticed the pattern of my downfall in that when I charged Q was I at my most vulnerable. Between the charge itself and cast animation, almost 2 seconds would pass. This is when blue magic boy is most vulnerable. If you make the situation in that you force him to charge up his Q, assassins can wreck him.