User blog comment:Centuriarch/Raiden, the Ace of Shades/@comment-24868463-20140915065823/@comment-24036535-20140915191608

Low root duration, but agreeable on the base damage and scaling, I wanted to make it a superior version of his auto attack while still keeping it as an ability.

On his ult dealing tons of damage, its one of his three damaging abilities, the only one of which that was intended to deal siginifcant damage. Will work to balance it out.