User blog comment:Alien Paranoid/Volibear: Champion rework/@comment-28465461-20161114152518/@comment-26902312-20161125132910

Sorry for late answer.

You cannot tell if this will make him worse or not. He lost damage on his W, that is true, but he got more durability, CC,  damage in R and  mobility in the process.

I played him as support lately  (Diamond elo, I played against some challengers that game), and I did pretty well even without maxing his W, I was as scary and useful with maxed Q and E as Volibear should be. Based on these games (3-4 lately, I played him as support  about 10 times  even before nerfs) I can tell that Volibear is useful thanks to his durability, chasing potential and QE combo, not thanks to his maxed W. W is just an icing on the cake. And in this rework, I actually buffed everything what makes Voli strong except his W, even tho I added stun in it (may be buff).

I won't talk about your suggestions since I've already read it in Voli's comment section and I think everything important was said there.