Board Thread:League of Legends discussion/@comment-25532677-20141013050627/@comment-24578590-20141015064153

Current meta's are much more effcient as his role as a top laner or jungle and even worse, he cannot 1 v 1 most other champions reliably.

The problem he's suffering from is that his maximum power is far to 'conditional'. A clever enemy can always side step the Q or is quick enough to use ANY decent CC on him during his passive (which completely counters it in all ways), which ultimately makes him unreliable in general. However, he's very fun to play and his builds are pretty unique. I really appreciate his passive on the W but I think he falls short because all of his abilities have low damage on initiation, unless you get a massive charge which is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT! because it's very, very easy to dodge, which means he can't "turn" any fights with it (because it'll do about 180 damage in a splash as an ulti... and everyhing else is easily dodged, or his sheild is immediately destroyed). He needs a roid, something that will give him a long duration for movement speed which is a stat he should have been naturally high in. Without it, for now, he'll be replaced by other dominant and more reliable champions.