Xerath

Some champions are built for battle, and Xerath never got that chance. He is now little more than arcane energy shaped into a body, held loosely within the shattered halves of a sarcophagus that once existed to seal something away. The sands of Shurima kept him entombed for ages, until the empire climbed back into the light and cracked that prison open.

Freedom Without Sanity

Escaping the tomb did not return him to who he had been. Long years underground left him obsessed with power and certain that the present order, every society raised during his imprisonment, has no claim to exist. His aim is to dismantle all of it and rebuild the world according to his own vision. That ambition sets him against other freed or revived Shuriman figures, among them Azir, whose路 path back to power looked nothing like his.

Xerath fights from afar and seldom has any reason to come closer:

• Arcanopulse — a long-range beam that damages every target it passes through.
• Eye of Destruction — a barrage that slows and damages an area, hitting hardest at its center.
• Shocking Orb — a bolt that damages and stuns a single enemy.
• Rite of the Arcane — Xerath roots himself in place to unleash a long volley of barrages.

Mana Surge, his passive, fuels that sustained barrage by returning mana with each basic attack, and it recharges faster whenever he kills a unit. The whole kit is designed to keep him out of reach while damage rains down from a distance few ordinary duelists could cross safely.

Hitting consistently still demands reading enemy movement. Arcanopulse lands more easily on a target charging directly toward or away from him than on one strafing sideways, and the slow from Eye of Destruction makes a follow-up beam even simpler. A Shocking Orb stun opens the door to a clean, centered Eye of Destruction hit for anyone who can line it up. Opponents who rush in quickly can often trade with him despite his range, and Banshee’s Veil in particular makes that stun far harder to land.