A New Xerath Ult

Ironclad Dragon··3 votes·1,465 views

Xerath's current ultimate feels somewhat lackluster. Its range is easily determined by enemies, the blast radius is quite small, and the shots are somewhat easy to dodge; in short, I don't find that much use for it. Quoting an associate of mine:

"Xerath's new ultimate destroyed my fantasy for Xerath. Long-ranged artillery is my fantasy for Kog'Maw, not Xerath. My fantasy for Xerath was being the eye of the storm - tearing away at the front-line or anything close enough. In its current state, Rite of the Arcane feels gimmicky; a bad version of Requiem; potshotting for a cheeky kill . . ."

So I thought about it. After signalizing the last few champions and reworks, I saw a trend. We now have a champion who raises up towers to fight for him; another who can negate virtually all incoming projectiles with the push of a button; a champion who changes forms unwillingly; and a rework that gives you a CC-immune, high-speed dash that pulverizes opponents on collision—no idea is too outrageous, I realized. If that's indeed the case, and I'm not imagining it... let me put this forward.

**ACTIVE: ** Xerath anchors himself to his current location and begins channeling for X seconds. After a 0.35 second delay, he calls down five pillars of destructive energy that individually deal magic damage equal to X% of his enemies' (current OR maximum) health per second. The beams' trajectory slowly updates toward the mouse cursor over the duration, converging into a single intensified beam after X seconds. The intensified beam moves partially slower, but deals increased damage across a larger area.

This ability can be reactivated to end its effects early; potentially for a reduced cooldown.

A demonstration: http://youtu.be/gscGzIkfxCM?t=49s

What it'd look like: http://youtu.be/UTweR2puS04?t=2m10s


Thoughts? I haven't figured out a name yet, but I want something along the lines of "God's Divine Wrath".

12 Comments

dialMARK4acti0n2 votes

I LOVE Xerath's ult as is... But this ult idea is AWESOME!!! I might even do a champion concept around it :P

Lord Graves III1 votes

Xerath needs a better graphic on his ult is all. It looks weaker than it is.

neranin2 votes

It's not looks weaker than it is, it's weak.

The problem to his Ult is When team fights starts, if your team is not in the chase but be chased, ult becomes useless and have no impact. And you know that? his ult actually has karthus q radius.

Just they have to roll back to previous one.

JustMyBassCannon1 votes

It's not looks weaker than it is, it's weak.

900+130% AP total damage. Yes, that's landing all 3 hits on one target, but it's a lot stronger than it appears. The problem is mostly the visual effect looking like he's throwing a few basic attacks instead of a ballistic freaking missile.

If used entirely on it's own, without any ally support or personal CC on the targets, it's very hard to land. With any kind of help, it becomes laughably easy. Xerath is a team-fighting AoE siege engine. Yes, that makes for frustrating solo laning against smart/mobile enemies. Kind of like how playing Wukong against Renekton is frustrating, or Vayne vs Caitlyn.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

your team is chased ? huh ... just toss one w to slow the chasers, make a gap , tap their carry with one shot or 2 preferably switch targets so they wont expect to get hit (magical technique... works wonders)
and bam..,. their carries cant compete to fight because they are to low or their carries are able to go into a fight but they are an easy prey for your teammates

Narelex1 votes

I think the ult currently fits him perfectly but it could def use a new particle his W looks like it has more impact

Ironclad Dragon1 votes

It would be a lot more intense, yes. In my head, it'd look like an intense version of this: http://youtu.be/UTweR2puS04?t=2m10s

Auryiel1 votes

I'd thought about a similar idea where Xerath basically does what he's doing right now (rooting himself in place) and he summons a pillar of energy at a target location that follows his pointer. Would be way cooler than what he has right now.

Papy Mougeot1 votes

I just had the same idea. I'm totally with you, it need to be a beam of energy (from the sky) rather than a water ballon missile.

Ironclad Dragon1 votes

I remember his old ult being a part of his damage rotation.

Good times.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

get 6 hit a good stun and unload your ult as fast as you can
kill aquired

its a good skill because it has insane dmg but the most reliable way to use it mid teamfight to gut the enemy backline works insanely well if you have a diving champion with cc in your team like vi malphite or maybe j4

thing about the usage of his ult before you cry that you cant just oneshot ppl across the map because xerath can assist any dive and nulify any carry from the safest range ever

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