User blog comment:GreenMoriyama/Judaeth, Messenger of the Limbo/@comment-9155327-20160610024029/@comment-3391671-20160610154904

Always glad to see such full reviews; very much appreciated. ^.^)/

I actually had to fumble around with the damage and effects around, wondering if I should restrict him to minute damage in trade of buffs/debuffs and some CC. I forgot to mark him as Mage-primary, as I am aware that he has enough AP scaling now to deal lots of damage. I'll take consideration that he could be an AP-Marksman, since I do like the idea of that (always glad to see more of those).

Before responding to your ability comments, I wished to respond to your opinion about the photo-to-kit match-up. I see where you do come from in regards to the splash, that he looks more sinister than what I write him for. But I wanted to move away from that (and if you haven't noticed, I usually am not a fan of writing such tales, although I should write more of it for the sake of getting better at writing); the only reason why I use the image is because it has the atmosphere to be a viable splash... and I see Judaeth in that kind of attire. To me, you could say that I believe that pose is just him thinking "Oh, what a pity. You do not believe in the Infinite Limbo?"; although he does not put up any intended arrogance, his beliefs makes him a bit too proud of the Limbo. Hopefully that explains myself.

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I do not watch often videos of other players, especially because I don't always have the time to sit down, relax and check out streamers (and because I admittedly do not play games such as League to be the best player as I can be; I prefer enjoying the game). This may not be an excuse, but his passive is supposed to be a setup to explain the Limbo and its effects of players (as mentioned in the Patch History); it can become somewhat hidden power, but I feel there is a possibility that in the game, people would catch up on the fact of when Judaeth is empowered or not. But who knows the better? Me or everyone else? Yes, it's everyone else (why am I even arguing >.<).

"Simple" for sure exemplifies what the Q should be. Knowing how descriptive Judaeth's other abilities would be, I wanted his Dimensional Bullet to be simple and workable. I purposely made it one of those skills that reaches far, but could be missed easily (I may extend its cooldown a bit for all fairness). I would believe it acts single-target on enemies not in Limbo and AoE on those who are in Limbo (basically, if it punches through you, you will only be affected by the AoE-target of Rylai's; is that fair?).

Thanks for the catch on the parathesis; one of those always escapes. I made the Mana cost higher per champion in Limbo so that Judaeth would not be able to place enemies into Limbo unless he wishes to burn through his resource quickly. As you say, this requires a lot of setup to be useful since he also has Mending Walk which could take a lot of Mana if he is not careful. If I calculate correct, Banishment costs 630 at Rank 1 to cast Banishment on all champions at Rank 1 (if only on enemy champions). But considering how he goes into lane first... he very much needs a nerf to that mana cost (at least base wise); I had only made it so low because in my mind, he would cast it on minions to get the best out of the ability. The cooldown is low on purpose, although I cannot clearly reason why.

Mending Walk was/is an ability I've been working with, trying to make it viable but also not pointless. It seems it still needs some tweaking and maybe a nerf (that ghost is more or less just an add-on in some way).

Although this won't counter your claim, Destructive Cataclysm used to deal damage per second... which made it quite too powerful. Otherwise, if you still feel its too powerful, I could nerf it. The synergy with Q is on purpose, just to let you know.

I could change up his affinity to the Limbo and make it more situational than simply, "every ability cast," so that he does not have it on him all the time.

Thank you for the review once again.