Talk:Xerath/@comment-26808509-20160811141204/@comment-26837195-20160811160304

I agree: Q is the only ability Xerath can poke with and it sort of taks him away from being THE ranged poke mage and brings him a bit close to Lux minus the utility, who's all about ranged burst and doesn't have much poke. (which is bad for long term game health as they compete for the same niche)

If Xerath's W became his second CC or poke ability rather than "Oh look, a really tiny slow" or, "He's already stunned so the slow doesn't *really* matter, but tons of free damage!" and actually had a good cooldown in exchange for some of that 90% scaling, Xerath would be the pure-poke long range mage with burst as a secondary rather than a primary goal.