Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-4296199-20130527021047/@comment-5545048-20130529153144

Well what I thought was OP about him before his nerfs (didn't really directly face one after yet) is that you really couldn't work around him. His poke combo hits hard like you mentioned while being energy based so also making him outsustain you in the long run and he also was an easy farmer. This meant that you couldn't push him to his turret like you do with other heavy pokers like Lux or Xerath (who also have good waveclear but will run out of mana) and you also couldn't All in him because of his godlike duelling power after 6. Also, if you managed to shut him down early you still couldn't leave your lane with a safe heart without him backdooring like crazy. My problem with him was that he needed constant pressure throughout the entire game to not let him get farmed and/or snowballed