Talk:Xerath/Strategy/@comment-24.21.125.38-20121002033122

I strongly dislike RoA on Xerath. Health and mana are not needed that badly (especially health, the main purpose of playing Xerath is to be far away from the fight, champs like Karthus, Swain, and Anivia buy RoA, and they do so because they need to be closer in the fight and they are more mana-hungry) unless you're against an assassin like LB where you need to survive enough to get decent farm, but you hardly do any damage with rushing RoA, and the benefits of RoA are wasted if you delay it (level up sustain, the extra mana, health, and damage passive from over time comes too late, etc.)

I only build Rylai's because the slow helps you provide more utility for your spells in teamfights, and even then, I don't rush that. Deathcap is very much his best item imo.