User blog comment:Emptylord/Custom Patch Notes/@comment-4709478-20130804170107/@comment-3974211-20130804172108

I don't mind it on ranged champions in general - I only mind it on Ezreal. However, Ezreal is also the only ranged champion who buys it. Making it melee only would only upset him, so it seems like a win-win.

Perhaps an alternate solution would be to have the area of effect change size based on the actual range of the attack, rather than whether it's melee/ranged: "...your attack creates a 275-radius slowing field. The radius of the field gets smaller based on the range of the attack, down to 85 (200-800 range decay period). "