User blog comment:DBinitiate/(Champion concept) Althares, the hireling/@comment-5441738-20121009035056/@comment-5441738-20121009152302

I disagree. The 10% bonus gold on kills and assists could be reasonably increased - that way, there's actually an incentive to use those abilities and get champion kills. Of course, whether or not that is actually the case depends upon the math of it. If you're actually going to work that out, you've got quite a job in front of you.

Also, you must have missed a decimal point in your post: your comment says that it should be "4(+0.2/lvl) bonus gp10" (total of 9.4 bonus gp10 at 18) while the actual post says "4(+2/lvl0 bonus gp10" (total of 40 bonus gp10 at 18). And no, I don't think that he would have to be played especially passively in the early game, especially if you start with his free Dash move.