User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Bak Mei, the Iron Fist/@comment-24385282-20150929005432/@comment-1330314-20150929185925

Considering how practically every champion has access to one or more of bonus movement, CC or dashes, eveyone would have the tools to outrange Bak Mei, and even a with his E on cooldown could evade him by sidestepping his abilities. "All you have to do is get within melee range" presumes that it would be easy for Bak Mei to do so, when extremely low range and a lack of gapclosers/bonus movement speed are both core weaknesses of his. In the same respect, all Juggernauts are OP, beyond their current balance, because "all it takes is for them to get within melee range" to unleash massive damage while tanking everything thrown at them.

I also think you're placing too much focus on the true damage, while also ignoring the fact that it's the only additional damage Bak Mei has on his kit. At level 4, the tankiest champion around will have about 1k health, and so Bak Mei's kit would provide him with a grand total of 200 damage per combo. By contrast, any average champion kit at that level can output ~300 physical or magic damage, with far less restrictions than his ult. FPEF would definitely be a powerful ability, but one with heavy gates and a major part of Bak Mei's power budget, so its strength is wholly justified imo.