Xerath is poorly designed and is toxic to play against

LZkkKD0Giz·Feb 18, 2015·2 votes·1,031 views

He has high poke and barrier in lane, he's Lulu 2.0 in lane except with even more kite.

His counterplay should be jumping on his face and stomping his ass in a duel.

All you get instead is stun/slow and he barriers away and enemy jungler knocks you up for 500 hp.

This is poor design.

He's overloaded and the only way Rito found to balance his was to nerf all the numbers in his kit at the same time.

Stop overloading champs and maybe make his kit have clear strengths and weakness.

13 Comments

Colgate GatorFeb 18, 20154 votes

Apparently it's in Xerath's design to have barrier in his kit and a summoneable jungler, also he debuffs the enemy's vision because they are too cheap to spend 75g in a ward to cover their asses.

FHMarshyFeb 18, 20153 votes

lmao Jungler chunks you down? that's called you getting ganked or you not warding. Don't blame Xerath.

You getting poked too much? That's called you don't know how to dodge skill shots. Don't blame Xerath.

You don't think Xerath has a counter? That's called you aren't good.

Don't blame Xerath

ZeroAnarchyFeb 18, 20153 votes

You clearly don't know what poor design is.

Stars ShaperFeb 18, 20151 votes

So it's poor design because you can't beat him in a 1vs2?

You should totally be teaming Ghostcrawler

101100111000Feb 18, 20151 votes

I bet you're gonna start complaining about Syndra next because she has a stun too. :^)

MyGhettoFantasyFeb 18, 20151 votes

take another skill shot champ. Nuke him while he is winding up his Q. Rinse and repeat.

Mandang0Feb 18, 20151 votes

He'd be fine if he didn't effortlessly shove the lane.

DrCyanideFeb 18, 20151 votes

What button is Xerath's "barrier" on? Because I have a feeling it's 'D' or 'F', not 'Q', 'W', 'E', or 'R'.

He's not overloaded either. His Q does damage. His W does damage and slows. His E does damage and stuns. His R does damage and gives vision as it hits.

Contrast these types of abilities with, say, Zed's Living Shadow, which passively grants bonus AD, gives him mobility, lengthens the range/AoE of his other abilities, and restores energy. Zed has more extra stuff crammed into one spell than Xerath has in all his spells put together.

Knight SoIaire Feb 18, 20151 votes

xerath is quite good design compared to the level of design breaking which guys like kalista, lee and such also his stun loses its power the closer you get, he is immobile so short stunn doesnt save him

GunpointFeb 18, 20151 votes

Least Xerath has to aim "Commando Annie".

FasmodeyFeb 18, 20151 votes

If you think Xerath is toxic, I doubt you did not see old Xerath. Because you would love to play against him right now.

He has more counterplay. And also he is going to be nerfed. E duration is bigger than you think.

BorigradFeb 18, 20151 votes

ITT a bunch of silver, bronze and unranked players tell the master player to learn how to play and that they don't understand the game. Never change league forums.