Talk:Xerath/Strategy/@comment-208.107.154.252-20120422060246/@comment-174.255.161.110-20120530042330

Idk, that build looks like a cheese end game build. Meanwhile, lane opponent "Anniemaster3000" builds Deathcap or even RoA early and wins midgame and continues to snowball. Frozen heart is especially unusual, as the only good reason to build it besides CDR, is to synergize with Archangel's AP bonus, which RoA does way better at (+25 mana and 60 AP over Frozen heart not counting the extra growth bonus from RoA's passive which adds like a couple hundred mana and 20 AP, not to mention health) for only a little more gold, and gives stats that casters need.

I do agree with your earlier statement though, a good xerath should work on landing Qs. I think the primary reason people get rylai's though is to give Xerath utility in teamfights. Xerath needs to do more than burst a squishy down in a teamfight, and rylai's allows him to help his team initiate or kite by slowing the enemy team from afar with his AoE Q and R (and iirc his E slows a target for the full effect because it's a single-target spell). Rushing rylai's is imo not a good idea though, since laning is more about sustain and getting your farm to be useful later, and a good xerath should be able to harass without it. My two cents anyways, I haven't played xerath much I'm afraid, but I learned a lot by watching Chauster's and Dan Dinh's.