User blog comment:Drokzen/Mortar team champion idea/@comment-50.156.39.16-20130330073505

With those base stats and the passive, the champion would be able to outrange turrets by level 11. Keeping the minions pushed up and away from your towers wouldn't do anything to stop this champion from simply walking up to the towers and gunning them down. It'd be difficult to balance pushing power like that no matter how low the base attack speed is, especially with the presence of Tristana in the League, whose viability as an ADC relies heavily on her range-increasing passive giving her the longest base attack range in the game (not to mention that she's already pretty much a rocketeer in concept), and Caitlyn, who relies quite heavily on her harassment potential from having the longest base range. It's an interesting idea, but I don't see it working with the current style of League gameplay.