User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Bak Mei, the Iron Fist/@comment-24385282-20150929005432/@comment-24385282-20151004021106

MARTIAL STRIKES:   Bak Mei  does not use  basic attacks  normally. Instead, all of his  abilities  are unlocked at level 1, have no cooldown, and instead take   「 1.6 seconds, reduced by attack speed  down to a minimum of 0.4  」 seconds to finish, causing him to inflict a basic attack at the target enemy in range upon completion. Bak Mei  can move normally while casting his abilities, whose initial casts also inflict a basic attack upon impact with  minions.

That's your delay right there; 1.6 seconds, reduced by attack speed down to 0.4 seconds.

As I said, the numbers, no matter what they are, would be either too small or too great. They're his basic attacks, and 100% of things he can do that aren't moving are reliant on them, so if they're difficult to land he'd be stupidly underpowered. But because of how powerful they are when they are landed, he'd be stupidly powerful if they were easy to land. And they HAVE to be easy to land, they're his basic attacks. Maybe if you made it so he could also attack normally with drawbacks against champions or something like that, I could accept that there'd be some sort of middle ground where they could be easy but not too easy or hard but not too hard, while also limiting his power against champions.

But that's not the case, so I can say that in my opinion, there is no set of numbers you can pick from where he'd be balanced.

And, finally, yet again, I am making no such assumption that his ult would be impossible to miss, just the observation that his kit would be stupidly underpowered if any of his abilities were easy to miss due to his passive, and the assumption that his abilities have the same hitboxes. I have no idea where you got the idea that I had ever made that assumption. But that was quite the erroneous assumption on your part, seeing as I never mentioned having the idea that his ult would be impossible to miss.

And, of course, you're right - there's no way to tell that he can't be balanced. But clearly you think he's balanced (or at least not extremely imbalanced), which means that there must be a way for us to make guesses with some amount of accuracy as to how balanced a theoretical kit is.