User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/My Mid Year Mage Update/@comment-24951773-20160309225039/@comment-3974211-20160309235440

The objective of his innate is to add momentum to his pushing, as well as to integrate his old W in a fashion. The damage also applies to his voidlings, which make up his new Q and W spells, and there really is no reason why he shouldn't be attacking. He's a low-range mage who doesn't really generate much threat beyond "is his R off cooldown"?

But yeah, of course he feels like a new champion. I'm not really sure how I'm suppose to make him feel less like a burst champion, have more counterplay, etc, and keep everything iconic about him in tact... something's got to give.