User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/Corki the Daring Bombardier/@comment-4888212-20130628030930/@comment-3974211-20130628105402

It'll only ever be 9.5 seconds if you're chasing them, since Valkyrie forces your to move a fixed distance. If they're right next to you, you'll fly over them; and vice verse. And lots of manaless champions have escapes (almost all, actually), including the ranged ones.

Regarding his build, the solution to that is simply - as with the Master Yi rework, encourage him to build carry stats. Maybe add to Gatling Cannon "There is a chance based on your critical strike chance to deal true damage instead." (and then give him a new passive).

And he has plenty of counterplay (moreso than Rumble, even). Crowd control while he's using gatling cannon to make him unable to turn it off - makes him overheat. Stun when he's about to quick reload to prevent him quick-reloading.

Forcing him to have 0 heat to quick reload would not add counterplay, it would just make him more passive (which would be more frustrating to play against). Perhaps adding a negative dangerzone, though?

At 50 Heat Corki enters the danger zone: - Bonus attack speed - Gatling Gun's cost is doubled - Missile Barrage's cost is doubled - Cannot perform a Quick Reload.

But I ultimately think that it's too much to think about and punishes him too much for being aggressive.

Also, it's not a 6 second pause + 4 seconds to get the de-heating; it's exactly the same as Rumble, 6 second pause and that's it.