User blog comment:Emptylord/Custom Champion - Nostrilla the Bogey Shaman/@comment-4068613-20130511052734/@comment-3974211-20130511054840

What's wrong with promoting speed over power? Riot's all about meta-shaking - so why not introduce a support who lanes well with attack-speed carries? I don't think it's a problem. Riot said during the season 3 discussion that they wanted attack speed to be a viable option for some champions.

She's doesn't have mana drain - I don't know where you read that. She deals magic damage to her target and gains a mana regeneration aura. Yes, thematically it's mana drain: but she never actually reduces her opponent's mana.

I don't know what you find so confusing about her kit - I personally feel she has a very logical flow to her kit. She has a skill-shot knockup that creates a wall as her initiation followed by her tether as a persistent damage source. Her damage output is slightly less than other supports, but the wall in her kit makes her initiation stronger than a lot of other supports. This two-skill combo is quite standard for supports; like Leona, Karma, Lux, etc. Circle of the Ancestors was added more for its theme contribution to her kit, as she's a shaman. But it does fit in with her kit - she walls off an area of the lane and throws down a bunch of buffs. The healing on-death is also thematic and is suppose to feel similar to Hecarim's Spirit of Dread. However - I might make it more similar and make it heal on damage instead of on death.

The fact Soul Drain scales with AD is because she cannot autoattack while using her tether. I didn't want her base AD to be entirely useless or for players to ever feel that they could be doing more damage by attacking instead of using her skills.