User blog comment:Doctursea/Item Change: Snowball Items/@comment-4022742-20121110182018

I'd like this to happen, however with the proposed bonus every 4 stacks it's way too easy to scale earlier in the game without loosing all that much if you happen to die.

At 4 stacks you loose 2 but if it is a switch kill you still keep the bonus when you revive you might want to change "a third of your stacks" to something like "3 stacks +1 for every 4 stacks." This means that you will have the following loss on your stack bonus:
 * 4-3-1=0 (no bonus)
 * 8-3-2=3 (no bonus)
 * 12-3-3=6 (1 bonus)
 * 16-3-4=9 (2 bonus)
 * 20-3-5=12 (3 bonus)

This decreases your bonus stats when you die with low stacks while not changing that much when you have full stacks from the previous system.