User blog comment:Caporai/Gideon the Legion/@comment-186.136.186.166-20120802051709/@comment-186.136.186.166-20120802191019

You want him to be a champion stacking mana, similar to blitz? Like, manamune / frozen / banshees for example? Because thats the first thing I though, but he could also be a champion that gets chalice in order to abuse the low mana situation.

Not really sure, I mean, you want him to be more like an assassin with burst damage, maybe that makes sense with your kit. My suggestion was all around an Offtank build. Manamune / Frozen / Brutalizer / Banshees maybe. Similar to urgot.

The only problem I see is that, manipulating your own mana is not really easy, its not like energy, where you can run out of energy in 3 seconds and be full energy in 8. Mana and timing your own mana in order to deal damage is pretty hard. Lets say he wants to deplete his own mana in order to boost his Q and Innate... that would take a certain amount of time, being an assassin he needs to do it quickly, so he may need an easy to spawn ability allowing him to deplete his own mana. Because his E is a dash, and having a 3 seconds dash (lets say) would be OP as fuck, his W should have a very hight mana cost, and high AD reward. Meaning that, upon ganking he should E + W + Q + Q + Q or, if you need your Innate and Q to deal full damage.

E + W+ R+ Q. That way, your E will deal damage, W and then R will give you a higher % missing mana for your Q and Innate.

How would you build him?