User blog comment:Arcaneelf/Ranged Carry Pusher, Marxell the Sharpshooter/@comment-82.240.214.188-20121210082821/@comment-82.240.214.188-20121210174028

Well, all of this is looking much better already :)

My point about the Q is: think Xerath. You generally won't stay self-rooted for long, or you'll get harassed like hell. You're basically a sitting duck with this ability, and when you use it, your ennemy may just go at you and kill you because you don't have any mobility. Actually, if I played against such a champion, I'd eagerly wait for him to root and unleash hell on him while he can't dodge. And that would happen at my range, not his, so the bonus range wouldn't be much useful.

Besides, your champion doesn't benefit from many offensive stats: mainly AS and AP. Debuffing one of your own main stats seems a bit harsh, especially when you already put yourself in so much danger with the root. There's actually no champion who reduces one of his own main stats to gain another (watch Xerath: he loses movement but actually gains Mpen. Watch Kog: he doesn't lose anything, gains much range and awesome damage. You get the idea).

I'm not sure how to balance it (just removing the AS debuff might be slightly OP, especially with a support than can pin a target down like Leona), but I don't like the idea of reducing your own DPS when you put yourself in such danger.

About the similarity with Corki, it really was just the same spell with exactly the same effects, just different numbers. Now, the seeking component is interesting and makes it more unique.

The R may be fine actually, it's just really hard to judge the effects of an ultimate on paper... I guess yours would burn the paper. Heh. Anyway, I think you were right to lower the delay. The cooldown seems incredibly high though. I don't think any non-ultimate skill in the game has such a long cooldown... At least make it shorter with skill levels, or give him a way to lower it (-1 second for each basic attack, like Graves' Quickdraw? -2 seconds for each autoattack with Q active ?).