User blog comment:StrategicMagic/Xerath and AD Mids/@comment-71.49.170.10-20130102073350

The thing you are not taking into consideration is that even though Xerath has such a massive range and poke ability, all of his combos depend on skillshots that are noticable and have channeling, and Talon will murder him. Talon can easily dodge every Q from Xerath by being smart and just moving to the side, and then close the gap, silence, bleed, Rake, then ult. Xerath would be good at countering them if his abilities weren't so easy to dodge and he had an escape.