User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Bak Mei, the Iron Fist/@comment-5588011-20150930231110/@comment-1330314-20151001032818

While Bak Mei would scale pretty hard, one of the reasons I implemented his leveling in the above way was so that he would have a baseline level of gold/level-agnostic power at all times, so even if he falls three levels behind (or winds up three levels ahead), with a similar gold difference, he'd still have the tools to outplay his opponents and be outplayed in turn. He might also have an easier time against Vayne than Pantheon, considering he could block some of her projectiles but not his jump or E, but in the end his performance in matchups would boil down more to how good he'd be at blocking stuff (and how good his opponent would be at timing their own attacks), rather than who he'd be up against.