Board Thread:League of Legends discussion/@comment-25532677-20141013050627/@comment-4091261-20141015210212

His kit is much like. Even though it has a better effect at it's maximum potential, sometimes you need that instant effect so you can be relevant to a fight. doesn't rely on her to deal her major damage. Rather she uses it to supplement what she mainly does, which is crit/dps. From what I've seen, is like that in many ways. His ability kit is useful, just as is. It's just that you need to synergize with the kit to compensate for the unreliability.

For example, because is difficult to land what does it do inevitably? Get you in close proximity to the team-fight. By extending the purpose of the ultimates ability to get you close to a teamfight despite not always landing the damage, you can easily get a onto the enemy team. As for there is LOADS you can do with it. What are the two reactions people have to your ? They either juke it or attempt to throw hard cc to stop it. How can you use this to your advantage? Simple, if enemies can "easily" juke the spell then lead it into a trap. For example, start your decimating smash where a large portion is away from the minion wave. The enemies juke the smash into the minion wave. You can then cancel the channel and use your to get them. If people are "so afraid" of your smash that they are willing to go out of their way to try and stop it. You can bait them out with a and/or  to waste their significant hard cc ability.

In essence, kit is hard to pull off it's maximum potential but their are definitely ways to work around it and even utilize the weaknesses as an advantage. I'd say is pretty balanced now. As terrifying as his kit can get, it is definitely simple to work around it's power due to it's unreliability. really tones down any extremes you go on him.