User blog comment:Nearthel/Anarel, the Elder Monk/@comment-26815373-20151015181606/@comment-24464243-20151017142228

I think it's pretty much natural for someone entirely reliant on actives to deal damage would be taken out of a fight by a silence. Especially considering this guy scales with AD and therefore has Mercurial to fall back on.

... And, also, the fact that there's really not a lot of silences to be worried about in the first place - most CC heavy teams will be packing stuns, displacements, etc. which do even more than silence does anyway.

Anyway, the no autoattack thing seems to be the only thing really interesting about this concept. This kit is literally just a bunch of nukes, one of which is tied with a short dash, and a over-the-top steroid for an ultimate. He's basically a melee Ezreal, to be honest, spamming skillshots with a bit of mobility tossed in. And ... he doesn't really provide anything besides that. He has a random silence as the failure case for his W ( ?! ) but that's literally it.

I can think of no reason why this guy would be played over all the other champions like him, except if his numbers are high enough to make him broken.