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Riot, please fix Xerath!

Mortis Dominus··0 votes·1,068 views

I think everyone would agree that Xeraths new kit is... lacking at best. His overall laning strategy has improved but his passive, ultimate, and spell animations are terrible. His old passive was a lot more useful than his current one. He now has the lowest mana regen of any mage. This makes his new passive necessary, but only becasue without it Xerath would starve. It's an empty passive and needs to be changed. Increase his mana regeneration, and replace this uselss passive with either his old one or a new model. Perhaps Scaling percentage magic penetration? (17% at level one, then an additional 1% per level until 35% at level 18).

Second, Xeraths new ultimate looks rediculous. He throws gobs of blue yogurt at his enemies? This ultimate is next to useless with it's 0.6 second delay between shots, and it's pitiful area of effect. I would durastically reduce the range of his ultimate in exchange for a larger AOE. I think his ultimate range should be at about 1400-1600, with an area of effect that is equal to his eye of destruction (W) spell.

I like that Xerath is squishy. It's a fair tradeoff for the amount of burst damage a Mage/Assassin is supposed to have. Riot, please fix this broken champion.Xerath is crying right now. Feel free to discuss what you think about these changes, and add anything you would change. Please, only add viable and realistic changes. No one wants to play agains a Xerath with 180% AP ratios.

4 Comments

Eapenator2 votes

As an old xerath player, I like the game play update.

He is more fun, more versatile, and has much better animations than before.

The only thing that I can complain about is that the new xerath's ultimate visuals could be improved upon alot. Even though the aoe needs to be small in order for it to be balanced, they could make it look much much better than it currently does.

Hopefully they change this in the future ,but everything his kit brings now is a step in the right direction for xerath

Ironclad Dragon1 votes

His ultimate could use an AOE increase.

Hoi Im Temmo1 votes
  1. QQ moar pls.
  2. the REAL purpose of his passive is to prevent him from laning outside range of the game. This forces him to either allow counter play, or to not accept he wont be spamming any spells today. Don't like fair champs? sorry.
  3. Scaling magic pen on the longest ranged champion, who excels at bursting people. Are you trolling?
  4. The point on the ultimate is to A) make it a SKILL shot. B) that would allow Xerath to burst the target, and not allow them a chance to dodge. While i get that you want an incredibly long range champion who has no counter play, no way to be dodged, and no mana gating, to bad.
  5. Squishy only matters if you get near him. That's the purpose of most of the things you are complaining about. That like saying nid spears should go through minions, and have 2x the range, but its fair cause she can get burst if Jax ever catches her.
  6. Xerath is still very strong, and viable, but only if you play him very well ( ok, I admit, I don't but still)
  7. ok, I DO dislike some of the animations.....but the above points remain.

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