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Thats such a nice change for akali, creeps so often can block your harass early game making it hard to do any real damage, but with this you can do so much damage pre-6. This actually could be a seriously good buff, no risk harass is always a strong thing to have

Make a new eve skin and buff her 

Let's kill more the defensive support ...

And it's fun to see the buff for Nunu, they undo the nerf he got last year when his jungle was too strong :)

Welcome to "power creep"

Ah whoa... they nerfed AP kog'maw again lol... And they forgot the change to distortion for LeBlanc where she could teleport at 3 different locations in a small amount of time.

It's just me or there are only half of Jayces abilities?

these skins look bad ass

Ap kog'maw is still viable! all you need is 2 archangels, athene's, blue buff and a soraka with a soul shroud to use your ult often! the spam is whole point of it they should have just reduced the damage...

They did this to make the poke less often because people will have to wait for the stacks to fall or suffer from overbearing mana issues.

They should nerf the mana cost on Gragas Q instead of his E, pathetic.

Was expecting more Xerath changes if I'm perfectly honest, as much as the buffs are appreciated it doesn't really have the effect of changing how he plays in my opinion.

Changes to his ultimate aside, I'm surprised not to see a rework of locus of power. Increasing the cooldown / cast time significantly while removing it's duration would give greater significance to using it, as well as fall in line with the notion of him being a "constant artillery".

People have made note of the fact that his passive is unfortunately lackluster, I'd love to see the idea of rolling locus of power into it in a similar fashion to teemo's passive, to place a greater significance on the use of locus of power than we currently have. Perhaps something like:

"Passive: Locus of Power. When xerath stop's moving for 5(?)seconds, he becomes a locus of power. Granting him significantly increased range and magic penetration. Effect lasts until Xerath moves."

With the current changes, Xerath's playstyle remains pretty much unchanged. Although his ultimate is now more difficult to land (this being offset by increase mp and mage chains damage), he still will play as a typical bursty caster.

I doubt this is all the changes hopefully, since Jayce only has 1/2 his abilities.  Pretty sure he has more. I think, like Leblanc in the patch preview, Xerath's mage chains flight speed will be a lot faster as well.  I remember hearing about them fixing that so that it doesn't happen you mage chains and Q but you Q before mage chains actually lands.  

I agree with you. I was excited when I heard there would be Xerath changes this patch and I feel like these all fall short. I am sure they will eventually get around to him properly they just have other champs that need love first like Sejuani lol.

Here's a proposal, I don't know how well it would work or what the numbers should be for balancing and such. I think they could make Xerath's ult similar to Akali's ult in that it would get stacks up to three. His R has a cooldown of 80/70/60. You would put a point into your R and then 30 seconds later you could cast it once. Another 30 seconds and you would get another stack, up to 3 stacks. This would allow him to be more of a sustain damage caster than a burst caster, I believe, because you could cast your ult once and that's it, you wouldn't have to worry about losing the other two stacks. I say give the stacks a 30 second cooldown because I feel like this ult would be a lot stronger and so it would only be fair to make the cooldown longer, but as I said the numbers are definitely subject to change. There would be a lot more balancing issues such as making his E too easy to land, you could just ERQ and not be wasting your ult, per se. It's just a suggestion and any feedback or criticism would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.

holy fuck akali HUGE buffs