User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/Is Darius being secretly nerfed?/@comment-2094543-20130823073257

The hitbox thing with Apprehend fits what they've been doing with Riven, Bilgewater Cutlass and such - it seems like they're just trying to make ranges more consistent.

Riot's recent focus on consistency suggests that the targeting reset and powerless attack are bugs... and I see no reason to nerf him deliberately - the ult nerfs succeeded in dethroning him, and the recent nerfs of Randuin's and the trend for new champions to be super-mobile kinda hurt him enough.

The "reset-on-timed-assist" thing was there from the beginning, and it was a good idea. It would feel pretty stupid to lose your ult when a tick of, say, Brand's passive randomly gets the kill.