Old champion designs translate badly into the new game philosophy, I'm not sure if just cranking up their numbers is the right way to go with this. Sure, beeg demeg is a way to make him viable but it's going to create the old problem again: artillery gameplay isn't very fun to watch for tourneys n stuff, it forces the game to be more careful and methodical, which Riot notoriously tries to get rid of.
I actually like these buffs for xerath. I’ve been playing him for years and I really feel that playing him as a mid laner just has relatively weaker pay-offs than most of the champs that were affected by recent patches, and these buffs will allow him to keep pace with the game much better while also adjusting him for better play styles.
I like how these buffs make him better midlane compared to support cause im honestly sicl of seeing mages like lux and xerath support. Also glad my boi is better now. The passive change was SOOOO needed
I just love the chill James Bond soudtrack, it's really relaxing. Also, I love when you play high elo, I don't care as much for all the kills as long as I can see great players with you :)
I don't really play League, but I want to get into it more because I have a friend who wants someone to play with. And I just want to say that as a total noob of the game, I really enjoy your videos! There's also something very calming about your voice. I wouldn't have known you were playing League with how chill you sound. xD
I see a lot of people hating on Zwag cus hes playing in low elo mostly these days.. like bro playing ranked these days it too stressful, people are super toxic and its just a bad experience, especially if you have to wait 20 min queue.. so its way more fun to play draft pick in lower elo and just have fun and try out some cool builds and new champs. So give this man some slack we all know how good of a player he is so even if he wants to have fun and play in lower elo thats totaly fine cus ranked is just way too much plus Xerath was a bad champ for so long now(well he was a good supp but still). And most of y'all hating cant even play 5% as good as him lmao
Xerath has 1 win and 2 losses so far this summer split (in the 4 major regions). Zero mobility paired with 100% skillshot abilities is realistically not possible for 99.9% of matches in pro play.
xerath is OP in proplay in poke comps, but proplayers are npc metaslaves. They will go play kaisa and spam W when xerath Q has 2/3 of her W range and no conditional CD reset and doesn't need 100 AP to be active. You just need team to peel you, which they will.
@@AaronBeSpeedy yeah xerath would be too hard to play with meta cc junglers. When maokai ult Ws the enemies, they surely wont be stuck for 5 seconds in the same place. You need to stop thinking like its soloq and u have 4 PDFs in team, so you must 1v9 yourself. Xerath would be really decent if proplayers actually picked him up instead of drooling on ahri, syndra, jayce every game
I didnt know that Xerath got buffed. I suddenly was doing 4 shots every ult use instead of 3 at base and i was confused. Nice to know that Xerath got Stronger instead of being only Brittle Railgun and Artillery cannon. hehe
The new passive relies on a specific sequence of: 1. Trigger passive (hopefully on enemy champ) 2. Farm minions 3. Trigger passive Prior, we didn't need to care about the specifics of when to farm minions, we just trigger it when we can. Realistically, with this change, the passive also gained 4 seconds of cooldown (12s old, now it's 16s). So in order to *wait it out* like we did pre change, we have to farm two minions to equalize the passive. Xerath is a very mana expensive champion. Probably the most mana expensive in the game. We will only see a net benefit in mana if we farm at least 3 minions every time our passive is on cooldown. Reasons why this is difficult: 1) You miss the farm 2) You get zoned out from farming 3) You would be overextending to farm those minions 4) You would spend more mana than you restore to farm those minions Obviously, using his passive is really easy - just auto. But you'll only see net mana if you're significantly dominating lane. You can't significantly dominate lane without Lost Chapter into Ludens.
Ludens is still better since it can proc multiple times in a fight (multiple times in 1 ult even) and the mpen is *way* more valuable into squishing than the higher ratio on harvester. Harvester really only good if you need the health or take really short fights
I just realized that the ult doesn't say damage increase for each artillery hit. It says damage increased for each champion hit... if you can get multiple champ hits with each ult shot the damage is gonna fly higher than Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.
Zwag has 0 idea how shit playing cho into mord is as tank. He has the perfect kit to kill imobile tanks. "Just buy mr" his kit litteraly has %magic pen and %hp damage. Then rift maker he just outheals your damage. Not to mention his ult.
can you go to a super low elo since I tdoubt this build will be good at all, but I wantto see super haste xerath inorder to see you just poke the crap oout of people with your q
Hitting all 6 ults is now called zwagging
The zwag special
@@sergiogutierrezvalverde7352i vote for the Zwag special
Acceptable
Zig zwagging
Agreed
"I just need to remember to use my passive before using abilities"
*clears the entire backline before using passive*
REPEATEDLY
“Did Zwag Xerath get the first 6 CS?”
No, he missed 2 caster minions
Lose Streak: 2
Then, he got all 6!
Win Streak: 1
❤
hi, kyle
Not cringe
Always gotta check for Kyle's comment
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. My absolute favorite videos from Zwag. Nothing beats the OG Xerath. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I loved the part where he said "It's Zwagging Time" and Zwagged all over the place
Wow I’ve never seen a comment this innovative before!
ITS BREAKING NEW GROUND
Xerath has no situational awareness. At around 8 mins, running away for his dear life just not to die... and he is like: I AM POWER INCARNATE. :D
Yeah, tru😂😅😂
Tho he really shows what "power incarnate" means if he full combos you 😂
I missed watching yours high elo Xerath games, it's what got me into your channel
Xerath is to a point where he's a champion again. It's good to see.
Old champion designs translate badly into the new game philosophy, I'm not sure if just cranking up their numbers is the right way to go with this. Sure, beeg demeg is a way to make him viable but it's going to create the old problem again: artillery gameplay isn't very fun to watch for tourneys n stuff, it forces the game to be more careful and methodical, which Riot notoriously tries to get rid of.
@@ExceedProductionTrue but maybe new Xer skin soon Riot loves $$$
But this patch is a nerf for supp xer
HE SOUNDS SO EXCITED WHEN PLAYING XERATH I LOVE IT
When playing high elo too
I'm glad to see he's enjoying it. He usually sounds so dead inside.
Lucian: this is a f'ing boring game.
Swag: time to smurf, this is too stressful. 😂
I was so confused why this Cass was playing so sweaty, it took me a moment to realize Zwag was on his main account.
*Goes 10/1 in high elo game"
Also Zwag: "Time to go on smurf account high elos too stressful."
I actually like these buffs for xerath. I’ve been playing him for years and I really feel that playing him as a mid laner just has relatively weaker pay-offs than most of the champs that were affected by recent patches, and these buffs will allow him to keep pace with the game much better while also adjusting him for better play styles.
Did Zwag play Nashor's Lich Bane Lux?
Nope, it's Xerath enjoying some new quality of life buffs he desperately needed
Loss Streak: 171
I like how these buffs make him better midlane compared to support cause im honestly sicl of seeing mages like lux and xerath support. Also glad my boi is better now. The passive change was SOOOO needed
Jhin: "I have the most powerful final shot in the game."
Xerath: *laughs in 2 extra shots*
Zwag: I don't know where Pantheon is.
Panth: You rang?
I just love the chill James Bond soudtrack, it's really relaxing. Also, I love when you play high elo, I don't care as much for all the kills as long as I can see great players with you :)
31:17 I like the speech to gameplay contrast.
Zwag, do you ever intend or have shown your games settings? Not courser speed or screen slide, the other stuff
I don't really play League, but I want to get into it more because I have a friend who wants someone to play with.
And I just want to say that as a total noob of the game, I really enjoy your videos!
There's also something very calming about your voice. I wouldn't have known you were playing League with how chill you sound. xD
high elo vods are the best zwag give us more!
55min Zwag's video, what a time to be alive.
your Lucian seemed sus with those side steps
19:58 This is looking very good though
Aw my cannon
nice to see some high elo games, i actually like them so i can learn more
Do you think he's still viable as Support?
Yea but probably better mid
Thanks for the great vid Zwag!
Higher elo games are the shit zwag. Be great if you uploaded more of em. Thumbs up so he sees it.
I haven’t watched a league video in years I’m watching one now just because zwag equipped with xerath buffs
Zwag busting his zwags all over the map.
44:38 what is that sivir icon
why not enginius hunter to proc luden ? and horizon instead shadowflame/Mejai ??
First strike, treasure hunt, all eco, get early AP scaling, kill people, win game, the early 4 shots are OP
kyle is legend. love zwag on xman.
Crazy
It's zwagging time
I see a lot of people hating on Zwag cus hes playing in low elo mostly these days.. like bro playing ranked these days it too stressful, people are super toxic and its just a bad experience, especially if you have to wait 20 min queue.. so its way more fun to play draft pick in lower elo and just have fun and try out some cool builds and new champs. So give this man some slack we all know how good of a player he is so even if he wants to have fun and play in lower elo thats totaly fine cus ranked is just way too much plus Xerath was a bad champ for so long now(well he was a good supp but still). And most of y'all hating cant even play 5% as good as him lmao
Love Xerath, also glad you showed he got some Buffs. Wish he could be in pro Play!
i could see him as an adc but ap for an ad stacked team or something. otherwise he doesnt really have a place
Xerath has 1 win and 2 losses so far this summer split (in the 4 major regions). Zero mobility paired with 100% skillshot abilities is realistically not possible for 99.9% of matches in pro play.
xerath is OP in proplay in poke comps, but proplayers are npc metaslaves. They will go play kaisa and spam W when xerath Q has 2/3 of her W range and no conditional CD reset and doesn't need 100 AP to be active. You just need team to peel you, which they will.
@@AaronBeSpeedy yeah xerath would be too hard to play with meta cc junglers. When maokai ult Ws the enemies, they surely wont be stuck for 5 seconds in the same place. You need to stop thinking like its soloq and u have 4 PDFs in team, so you must 1v9 yourself. Xerath would be really decent if proplayers actually picked him up instead of drooling on ahri, syndra, jayce every game
Zwag when he takes the weights off 💪💪
Zwag special the second tower
Everytime I watch Zwag I’m like, wow damn that’s so op I should try it (never works)
Ya gotta try an play the way he does
@@thaddeushill7080 meanwhile: misses every minion
@@zselimegmen8714 well no but yes...there's more important targets
Zwag uploaded, finally I can get some sleep
Passive changed from 12 sec to 14?
omg, Zwag is back
Do you think Axiom Arc would be viable on Xerath?
it works with lethality now
so probably not
Zwag Xerath playing as Xerath is lore accurate =w=
I didnt know that Xerath got buffed. I suddenly was doing 4 shots every ult use instead of 3 at base and i was confused. Nice to know that Xerath got Stronger instead of being only Brittle Railgun and Artillery cannon. hehe
“i wanna be able to buy something” is me every time i get ANY amount of money irl
When would you go horizon focus, or would you ever buy horizon at all?
And Rek'sai recieved pretty big nerf :D damm she is still a monster
your ult was doing an easy 5k minimum damage every time it came up. thats beyond insane
Ngl, i started playing xerath by watching zwag.😅
Maybe with new passive you don't need ludens and could go something like night harvester.
The new passive relies on a specific sequence of:
1. Trigger passive (hopefully on enemy champ)
2. Farm minions
3. Trigger passive
Prior, we didn't need to care about the specifics of when to farm minions, we just trigger it when we can. Realistically, with this change, the passive also gained 4 seconds of cooldown (12s old, now it's 16s). So in order to *wait it out* like we did pre change, we have to farm two minions to equalize the passive.
Xerath is a very mana expensive champion. Probably the most mana expensive in the game. We will only see a net benefit in mana if we farm at least 3 minions every time our passive is on cooldown. Reasons why this is difficult:
1) You miss the farm
2) You get zoned out from farming
3) You would be overextending to farm those minions
4) You would spend more mana than you restore to farm those minions
Obviously, using his passive is really easy - just auto. But you'll only see net mana if you're significantly dominating lane.
You can't significantly dominate lane without Lost Chapter into Ludens.
Ludens is still better since it can proc multiple times in a fight (multiple times in 1 ult even) and the mpen is *way* more valuable into squishing than the higher ratio on harvester. Harvester really only good if you need the health or take really short fights
Xerath is finaly playable. i'm carrying with supp xxerath to plat. JUst early game is a bit rough but mid to late game is great
Zwags voice at 21:49 😭 sounds like he’s about to rizz someone up
Gg bro ❤
Gnar video plz🙏 been over a year since last one
I always hear Mord say"Shut up" instead of "shatter."
I saw Zwag miss a Q! Then I woke up and realized it was all a dream.
I dont know why you dont buy any control ward 😮
For some reason i thought mordekaider was on your team for the first 4 minutes, im baked
Kindred count
Count since the last video 32 days
Last record of 88, 222 days
Ult Damage: 808 at level one with zero AP.
1860 at level three with zero AP.
This was very fun.
I bet AD Zilian got buffed aswell
I just realized that the ult doesn't say damage increase for each artillery hit. It says damage increased for each champion hit... if you can get multiple champ hits with each ult shot the damage is gonna fly higher than Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.
In the tool tip ot specifies only one per shot.
i feel like it'd actually be cooler if you could get multiple per, it'd reward getting those difficult multihits@@Ezurial
Zwag has 0 idea how shit playing cho into mord is as tank. He has the perfect kit to kill imobile tanks. "Just buy mr" his kit litteraly has %magic pen and %hp damage. Then rift maker he just outheals your damage. Not to mention his ult.
20:37 Zwag Toot
Day 124 of asking for lethality full AD Lee Sin - Been a while since Lee has had any spotlight
Zwag is the guy and everyone loves him. Even Neace thinks he is big on youtube
I just cannot suffer this champion and they buffed him..again
Thumbnail has a funny typo lol
Day 119 of asking zwag to play heart steel kindred top
Second skin of the day: Arcana Xerath.
Instead of making xerath passive have an ap ratio make it have damage that scaled off mana.
ryze:
lol starcraft musik hehe
Hmm that turret stole your kill lol..
Too early, thanks for the asmr
10:34 dude just admitted he's a smurf. LOL bonkers nobo
how dare they buff Xerath and not buff mah boy Velkoz!!!
As a bot/ sup player I hate meeting a Xerath. He's my permaban, and every time I meet a Xerath bot he destroys everyone. These buffs worry me
Don't worry, now he has less mana and the passive cooldown was increased. He has to kill minions to stay in lane with these changes.
Zwag bro can u challenge 1v1 Nunu i trust in your win
Wait. Didn't they just buff him a few months back?
That was just in PBE, it took a while this changes to apply it seems
If you have 600 AP and hit all your shots, it will do 4200 magic damage…
can you go to a super low elo since I tdoubt this build will be good at all, but I wantto see super haste xerath inorder to see you just poke the crap oout of people with your q
Day 1 of supporting the guy who support the guy that is asking for AD Zilean Guy
Hitting all 6 Ults is now called Zig Zwag
Hi zwag and Day 1 of asking for full AD xerath
they changed it from 7 to 6 xD
Day 1 of asking for AP Tristana🙌🏼
Now that this is on the first comments...can u do this guy's gnar video?
So u can let the ap tristana guy to comment for like one month until he gets it
day 31 of asking for heartsteel jax
4 void champ game!
Day 249 of asking for full attack speed Ornn or Tank Pyke with Grasp, Heartsteel and Overgrowth (Titanic hydra doesn't work on pyke).
I dont understand from where i know this name of her hahaha
Day 102 of asking for crit Rek'Sai
Ad Zoe next pliss
Day 103 of asking for Galio jungle
gg
AP Leona