User blog comment:Simbey/Real Talk: Braum/@comment-10390686-20140501182214

I think you are too hard to this nice guy...

It is not unoriginal if you take 4 partial identical skills of other champions to put this together...

Yes, his passive stuns after stacks, but you dont compare f.e. Annies passive with kennens aswell, just cause it stuns after stacks? Getting stacks by other champions (in this case, your adc, mostly) is completely new...

Same thing his Q: sure, it is a linear skillshot with damage and slow as 10000000+ champs have, but you have to give him a supportyslow ability and an option to get close to the enemy without a gapcloser (alistar, leona,...) or making him ranged... so what else should it be^^

His W is the same like the mentioned skills... ok^^

His E is not much the same then windwall... you "catch" the projectiles instead of deleting them, you take the damage/cc/whatever, you can move, it is "one directional" instead of just deleting everything... its just a little like windwall, but overall mostly whole new...

His ult is kind of Namis, i agree, but less ranged, longer duration... and it doesnt feel like it ingame...

Overall: he is a quite new support, cause we dont have a blocking wall in front of the adc up now, we just have tanky engager (leona, thresh, alistar), healer (sona, soraka) and poker (all those belong to mid supports).

So one by one his abilities might be unoriginal (or partial new), but looking at the whole kit and his role, it is something completely new and, imo, something we were missing until now...