Talk:Xerath/@comment-4929329-20121130032045/@comment-4929329-20121130033556

If you want to know the logic behind my build-

Sorcerer's Boots really do help with early game trading, and CDR boots would just result in using more mana for more skillshots when DPS is not required.

RoA is an amazing sustain item, and it provides Xerath with a good blend of damage and tankiness.

Athene's was an interesting choice for me, but I had noticed a few things: I did not have a good amount of magic resist at the moment, I was running out of mana, my CDs resulted in missed kills, and I was wanting more damage. The magic resist isn't a major reason to pick it up, but with GA you've got a decent amount. This little item right here gives Xerath great offensive power as he can not only have the mana to cast spells frequently, but it gives him the damage and CDR he needs to pull it off.

Rylai's was actually what I had in mind when I bought Athene's, because CDR means you cast spells more often, thus slowing your enemies more often. Yet again, you get tankiness with a good amount of damage and the ability to hit your skillshots in a chain even if you only get off your E, which is single target and will give a good slow to land your Q, which in turn stuns for your R, which slows them again.

Gaurdian Angel was bought because I all ready have a huge amount of health (At the time, I had quite a bit more HP than anyone else, even our Shen) and the resists that this provided rounds out the build as well as let me play a more risk-and-reward game, or punish enemies for trying to get to me because they didn't actually kill me even though they spent a ton of effort just trying to get next to me due to my range and slows from Rylai's, and then they have to kill basically an AP Bruiser that had farm so he's borderline tank.

Rabadon's was the obvious last choice, but the game ended before I could buy it.