User blog comment:NicknameMy/Riot, pls bring back GP/@comment-5663427-20140112090717/@comment-8468980-20140113063155

"GP is not underpowered, he is just pretty useless after laningphase (which he clearly rocks)."

He isn't a competitive jungler or top laner and these are his only two genuinely viable laning assignments.

His item requirements for damage are higher than average yet much of his kit's base power is diffused into arbitrary support like his AD/MS buff as well as his global aoe slow. Riot will probably reduce the utility he brings to a team (but not erase it entirely) while at the same time focusing more of that into a stronger selfish kit.