User blog comment:Nhan-Fiction/(Custom, Fan-made Champion) Kiya, The Feline of Fervor/@comment-77.97.71.67-20120803233333/@comment-5324023-20120806000551

Okay, for some reason I never realized she effectively had two passives. When I did the numbers for Kiya, she didn't have the autoattack reducing her cooldowns, and I balanced around that.

Naut and Leona are so effective due to their natural tankiness and disruption. Sure, Kiya can have a bit of that too with effective use of debuffs, but she can't debuff an entire team, while Leona or Naut need only use their self-shield. The numbers on her shields themselves can be reduced, if her effectiveness through disruption is a problem, but that also risks cutting into her other strenghts.

The other two champions Kiya is based around, Nasus and Renekton, all have ultimates that enhance their basic kit in some way. I don't know who put the triple CDR effectiveness on the ultimate, I don't remember putting that into the original numbers, I'll have to go back and check my notes. Also, most of the bonus effects take place on the next cast and stop there.

As far as story goes, once again I didn't have all that much to do with that. While I do some writing, it's usually not in a character backstory context.