User blog comment:Alciefrederic/Thoughts about Vel'Koz/@comment-5035765-20140308202125

you just took one of the champs with a pretty unique kit (there's nothing like his Q or R in the rest of the game, and there aren't many skills like his W, E, or passive) and called him just another average mage... lol?

what people like you fail to realize is that there are only so many mechanics you could possibly have in a game like this without having it be OP or not fit in the game, and there's like... almost 120 champions now? Plus there's the champs from DotA and any other MOBA to count in, so eventually you're gonna have some similarities.

And really, if every character is totally unique, it's just THAT much harder to expand your playable champion pool (like, i can go between playing Nautilus in one game to playing Blitz or Thresh in the next pretty easily, since their core stuff is fairly similar... hook with Q, use other skills to keep the enemy from getting away, build tanky... tada, kills)...