User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/Corki the Daring Bombardier/@comment-9245010-20130629230725/@comment-3974211-20130630120034

I don't think that armor pen would buff his ADC side. He definitely needs a good ADC steroid, but for a ranged auto-attacker it's gonna be hard to balance "overheating isn't the worst thing to happen" and "I must overheat all the time". Giving him a lot of true damage or armor penetration will be like saying "You become Vayne if you spam all your abilities", but too little and they won't feel useful. I chose an attack speed steroid because a strong attack speed steroid isn't as easy to abuse. I'm open to ideas, of course, but I'm not sure "tankbuster" is the direction to go.

Regarding the Quick Reload system, I honestly don't think missing the odd Quick Reload will be that bad. If anything, it'll add positive feedback to playing him - "darn, I missed that one" or "grrr, they silenced me and I couldn't reload!". When Twisted Fate misses a card he doesn't ragequit Twisted Fate, it encourages him to try hard. Missile Barrage has a low cooldown regardless of whether Corki succeeds or fails - it's not like Darius where it's either on a 0 second cooldown or on a 2 minute cooldown depending on whether he hits or misses the sweetspot. We're talking 5/10/12 second (5 for quick reload, 10 for base/you do nothing and 12 for you fail). That's still REALLY short.