Talk:VPBE/@comment-26524757-20160201170516/@comment-3974211-20160202163308

Riot's said that any Vel'Koz changes are likely to be Caitlyn-tier, if they even go through with Vel'Koz - emphasize the things the champion already does. At the moment they're just concerned he overlaps with Lux as to "why do I pick him", but feel of the two: Vel'Koz has the best space to make their gameplay more distinct. I believe his W is something there's interested in looking at. I personally think it'd be interesting if they smashed his W/E together and have his W cut a fissure of impassible terrain through the ground that damages and knocks aside. The temporary terrain is a distinct way of locking down enemies and forcing targets to move in a specific direction synergizes well with his right-angle skill shot as well as his self-lockdown ultimate; and it does so in a way that is distinct from E-lockdown-with-follow-up (which is what's a clone of Lux's Q-lockdown-with-follow-up).

I imagine Cassiopeia, Malzahar and Vladimir are the only champions on the list at "risk" of a Skarner/Mordekaiser-scale set of changes, but I'd prefer to think of it as Graves-scale because they don't always fuck up. I'm only nervous about Cassiopeia - because general opinion seems to be that players want a poison mage, whereas I main her as a machine gun (and always have), so if they go even Caitlyn-scale on her they're probably going to move all her power to places I don't enjoy. Q_Q