As mage player banning Yasuo is more satisfying than winning the game

Stand beside the minion wave and shove constantly with basic attacks and abilities. This gives Xerath two bad choices, one for positizoning and the other for his abilities.

Positioning

1. Stand on your side of the lane and get poked.
2. Stand on the opposite side of the lane and not have the range to hit you.

Abilities

1. Try to hit you with Arcanopulse and miss last hits
2. Try last-hit with Arcanopulse and miss you.

If he stands on your side of the minion wave and tries to hit you with Arcanopulse, then while you won’t be able dodge his ‘pulses or trade back reliably, the wave will soon push to his tower. You’ll lose a little health, but he’ll lose control of the lane.

The following applies to midlane generally. Once the wave reaches the turret, stop pushing it and just go for last-hits while pinging your jungler to gank. Once the wave is near your turret, thin it out enough to freeze it, and Xerath will have lost the lane. If he walks up for last hits, then the jungler will gank him. If he doesn’t, then he’ll miss out on gold and experience.

Even if Xerath has played perfectly by warding one side bush and staying near it while not letting you know which bush he’s warded, his only remaining choice will be to use all his abilities at once, except his stun, to clear the wave, forcing his minions under your turret. Respond by immediately doing the same to keep the wave where it is.

Xerath is now stuck on your side of the lane and can’t do anything about it. He cannot use his stun, or else he cannot play mind games by pretending to ward one bush and then warding and standing beside the opposite one. A flash gank from fog would kill him. Here comes the ‘baiting’ that you might have heard about from higher level players. You need to put the enemy player in a psychological vise.

Every time your abilities are off cooldown, walk in and out of his stun range over and over. If he casts his stun at a distance to try to stop you, then sidestep it because you’re “one step ahead” since you expected him to potentially throw it and were just waiting to see the cast animation. If he waits too long or doesn’t throw it, then just go all-in at your maximum range. Any hard crowd control will interrupt his Arcanopulse, which is where his damage comes from. If your jungler is there, then he will join your all-in.

The reason I mention the stun is that it’s the only ability that he will have up—he needs the others to keep trying to bust the freeze. His only response to you walking up is, under the intense pressure of dying or getting chunked out if he makes any mistake, waiting until just the right range, exactly predicting your movement, and knowing for sure that your jungler isn’t just waiting to flash on him.

You just have to watch and wait for him to mess up.

Nah fuck Diana fam. She does way too much damage, like wtf? I have a negatron on Ryze and she still be blowing me up. Its like why even build MR against her lmao.

Also electrocute on Malzahar just feels bad tbh. Its not something you proc very often. You'll get it like once every 3 or 4 minutes.

I would prefer spellbook over electrocute. There is just a bunch more utility with that.

Safer laning, more capability in secuting objectives, better roams, better team saving capability. You just have to be intuitive about what you need.

Its not that I can't play into him.

Its that I don't want to play into him.

He is just stupidly annoying to play against, because you can have him under tower all game and he will still be allowed to put out the same amount of damage as you.

I am a strong advocate that longer range = less damage. It literally makes sense in pretty much EVERY role. (Until top or support, but thats because of Tanks and Mages)

The longer ranged ADC should be weaker than the short ranged ADC, so if the short ranged ADC gets into range vs the long range ADC there should be near zero chance that the long range ADC wins. We see that a bunch of times with Vayne and Cait.

But when we compare someone like Xerath vs someone like Malzahar. Xerath will deal more damage.

Because Malzahar got gutted in damage because of pro play (He still gets picked up because of his ulti.)

Its not that I can't play against him, Its just I hate playing against him.

It would be pretty bad if I made diamond not being able to play against a champion with all skillshots lmao

Yasuo gets on target cooldowns, while irelia can potentially dash 3 times on the same target

minions must be 1 hp?

my ass

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Everything Irelia does can be avoided though. 3 skills shots and a Q that only really works as an engage if you are standing next to a low health caster minion.

A 0/10/0 Yas can hit W every team fight and spam his R key and still win fights.

Also his full build is basically 2 items.

A 6 item Zed does his shit... meh Zhonyas/GA/exhaust/whatever.

A 2 item yas tosses a w in front of his ADC and spams his r key waiting on a Trundle pillar from half away across the lane... GG teamfight.

Not to mention negating half the ultis in the game from ever doing anything on a 20 second CD.

Irelia's dash is targeted just like Yasuo. Everything else in Yasuo's kit is dodgeable (Q, Q3, even EQ, his ult can't hit you if you weren't hit by him or his teamates before). You can even aim around his Windwall (most of the time won't get the chance to reposition before the fight is over though) while Irelia's damage reduction cannot be played around.

they aren't persecuting you for being a cat