User blog comment:JmLyan/Lightning, the Commando/@comment-5266525-20130329203914/@comment-5266525-20130330100231

Basing a champion directly off a character from another game will rarely work out when the mechanics between them are so different.

I did not say the problem was with her scalings per se. Many champions in LoL have mixed scalings but almost all of them have a kit that encourages a particular playstyle (eg. and  are obviously hybrid autoattackers,  is a short-range hybrid mage). is one such exception, but he's an extremely old champion and is generally agreed to have a poor design nowadays. Lightning follows his design mantra - she's a subpar mix of AP caster and AD bruiser. While it's not impossible to balance her she would be very awkward to build and get her numbers right.