Talk:Xerath/@comment-5663971-20140208115746/@comment-6778736-20140211010019

@ Namedey main account's Silver 6w 4l, lost 2 games through AFK players, 1 through a diamond Vi smashing faces and one due to my own incompetence. Played on last day of S3. Since then I've occasionally duoed with some gold acquaitnces, but through them not giving a crap I got demoted to Silver 4 and decided I need to be able to play one champion well on each role and completely stopped ranked for now until I get that worked out.

The reasoning behind my belief Xerath is very much usable for toplane is because one of his traits, enhanced after the rework, is that he could essentially lane against anything (Point: WE vs IG game where Xerath easily held a 2v1 lane). With his new beefed-up base damage and an additional peeling tool in the form of W slow he should be able to stave off any obvious engagements. At the very least he'd be a popular pick for laneswapping with his kit's versatility. Additionally Xerath never needs to be in harm's way while posessing the ability to avoid getting jumped via good warding and well-timed CC. That, coupled with his range is my basic reasoning for why he could work as an unconventional toplaner/midlaner holding toplane.

The main counterpoint to this would be if you can't shut down the enemy laner hard enough they'll just get sustain and not care about your harass, so there's that, although it's no diffrent from a midlane full of Rivens and Lee Sins.

I should probably try to make these a wee bit shorter, walls of text ain't appealing.