User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Rasputin, the Abomination/@comment-4068613-20130717210545/@comment-4068613-20130719115248

I may have been a bit broad in my earlier indictment. I don't think he's useless, but the matter is that much of the time, not laying a finger on him is the best choice his opponents have The heart of my problem lies with his innate and his ultimate. All champions have the capacity to capitalize on mistakes; it's an important part of the game, and helps it be more dynamic.

For the most part, however, your allies aren't allowed to fuck you over directly. They can be dead weight, and they can let you down, but they can't actually screw you personally. Thresh and Blitz can grab your allies, and that sucks for them. You now either engage or spend the next few minutes a man down. My problem with Rasputin lies in the fact that if he's an opponent, your allies can un-kill him. If his ult is up, you essentially just enabled friendly-fire. Making enemies afraid to attack or use abilities at all makes for un-fun games. You can''t overwhelm him; damage actually heals him! You can't poke him: he has your abilites on quite possibly a lower cooldown than you!

He's not OP or unmanageable, he just takes all the fun out of having cool abilities or dealing a lot of damage.