User blog comment:JmLyan/Tela, the Sewmaster/@comment-1330314-20130816012743

Tela... Spanish for fabric?

First off, the idea of binding champions to string is brilliant. It's unique, adds flavor to your kit and adds a consistent theme. Why make Tela melee, though? She'd benefit a lot more from throwing threads at champions from a distance, especially since her mobility isn't too good against non-threaded champions.

Stretch is good by itself, but looks too similar to your ultimate. I'd swap out the reverse knockback for another effect entirely. Currently your champion has absolutely no waveclearing potential, so I'd look towards that.

The passive damage from Dart Needles is a bit high, though the damage falloff is a nice thought. The active is also great, and synergizes perfectly with Thread Flight, for an ability that damaging the cooldown is way too low. Reducing the cooldown by 1 for each rank would bring it to a much more reasonable 9.

Similarly, Thread Flight's cooldown is far too low for a gapcloser, whereas the mana cost is too high. It also has the problem of being only useful on threaded enemies. Having this as an all-purpose targeted dash while reducing the cooldown on threaded champions would balance it out a little better. However, the running theme of threads works well, and should definitely be kept.

Puppet Threads is a fantastic, synergistic ultimate with good damage and good CC. Nothing to criticize here, other than that the cooldown may be a little high for an skill so dependent on Tela's other abilities.

Overall, your champion's kit is mostly well-designed, but is made to be effective only against threaded targets, and otherwise has very little effectiveness and no farming potential. The cooldowns on her W and E are also really low, whereas the final mana costs are really high. The theme, however, is amazing, and makes this kit completely unique. With a few tweaks, your champ should be golden.