User blog comment:ShininGeek/Maria, The Arctic Enchantress/@comment-5266525-20131203001147

I think the innate and ult alone are quite innovative and interesting, though I think the ultimate just has too many things going for it to have a clear defined use case.

Level scaling on passive is too high. Compare/contrast Alistar, who only has 1xlevel scaling for a smaller range and much lower uptime. This is after even factoring in the higher AP ratio and ignoring unit collision.

E is too strong. Lissandra's ultimate has ten times the cooldown and 200 less range for only slightly more damage and the same stun duration. Taric's E has less range, less duration, higher cooldown and a travel time for... 5 less mana cost.

Ult could use a coding cleanup - put it in bullet points in the main description. Aside from that, how does the shield have three ranks when she only gets it at rank two? There's no reason it shouldn't apply spell effects from the get-go, and the first rank-up benefit she gets doesn't seem good enough to be worth keeping on its own (at level 18 her passive has 90 more range. That's nothing).