Talk:Ziggs/@comment-3514681-20120128085309/@comment-4140664-20120128090121

"The primary reason for the passive was thematic - I felt that a champ who's all about throwing bombs should have attacks that at least occasionally hit harder than your average caster's. This gives some gameplay working auto attacks into a fight occasionally (without requiring them on a 1:1 attack:spell ratio as per Sheen etc), allows Ziggs to put out a bit of extra damage without needing to use mana and lets Ziggs deal more damage to towers than most casters (between passive, ult and ability to clear minion waves quickly he can pull off a bit of split pushing occasionally).

A secondary reason was a need to give him some guaranteed damage against some champs that otherwise had too strong an edge against him in lane, given all the rest of his damage comes from skillshots. "

-Meddler