Talk:Vel'Koz/@comment-25399308-20150831221331/@comment-9048637-20150914122433

While I'm not going to say Meddler is completely off-base, I think perhaps he's... overstating a little? Or perhaps oversimplifying. For me, Vel'Koz's "niche" is as one of the best kiters in the game; most champions who are arguably better at kiting then Vel have much less range, and no AoE wombo ult. Now, maybe having a mix of fairly generic strengths whose "uniqueness" lies in their exact mix isn't really sharp enough in terms of the kind of heightened contrasts Riot have been looking for lately; I will admit I'd be interested to see what kind of strength they gave Vel (or which of his current strengths they played up) if they were looking at him. But to contend that he's completely lukewarm feels wrong to me. In any case, I don't think adding a scaling on his passive would really address that; it would just give him more power without really playing up a unique strength all that much (I mean, I suppose it would cement him as a combo mage, and to some extent as a tank buster. But if your current complaint is that there's no compelling reason to pick him over Brand, playing up the 'combo mage' and 'tank buster' angles seems a strange way of rectifying that).