Talk:Xerath/@comment-24035110-20140215171642/@comment-24042737-20140215192458

Hey lets look at your statements.

First Riot didn't rework Xerath because of low pick rate. They reworked Xerath because they wanted to make him a little more fun than he was and found gameplay problems when investigating further, it wasn't even supposed to be a full blown rework.

Second Xerath's 'strengths' was blowing up anyone, including tanks thanks to the free 40% magic penetration, in ~1000 range and poking everyone down every 3 seconds. Well Xerath now doesn't have the penetration at all and coupled with his burst being distributed all acros his skills its much harder for him to burst down someone, and his stun is no longer easy to do. And they even made it so that his poke would be (Cooldown of Q + ~1 due to charging it) They completely removed one of his strengths and limited the other, that's not doubling it.

Third Xerath's mana costs are insane. He has to auto attack a minion, or a champion, every few seconds in order to not become oom and in doing so opens him up to counter attack, Riot even emphasized this by lowering his attack range. If Xerath is close enough to attack a minion, he is most likely close enough to be in range of most spells.

Lastly Xerath was changed quite a bit during his time at PBE. Before, Xerath had free magic penetration AND either just as much, or maybe even more, mana each 12 seconds. He also gained brief sight of the ENTIRE area inside his ultimate. He could easily find his target and assasinate them, and he didn't need to know the relative area of where is target was before casting the ult because it showed them. That was stupid because at least Ziggs and Lux had vision constrainsts on their ults. He also did more damage before, and even had an isolation mecanic on it once.

Btw Xerath's spells are ALL delayed, it takes ~0.5 seconds to fire a Q, and charging it, and it takes ~1 second for his W to land, E isnt very fast and R has a initial setting up time and it takes ~0.5 seconds for it to land.