User blog comment:Asfidyll/Raiju, the Grandmaster's Make/@comment-25228021-20170104171505

Aside from the obvious oddities mentioned, I just get the feel that a champion with most of his power put on his abilities should not be labelled as a fighter, nor should his stats be around that of a fighter. As it is, it's just a Syndra-like mage with far more tankiness than should be allowed for a character of his type. The fact that he is melee just feels like an excuse to give him the better stats of both mages and fighters, and again it just doesn't feel right for this character.

Also, there are a lot of effects on the abilities that feel out of place and/or frustrating for Raiju and his opponents. The passive is as boring as it could be, his W looks like it'd be so annoying for both Raiju and his opponent (Raiju because he zones himself by fear of destroying his singularities, the enemy because Raiju can pre-activate it and have it up at all times, and the massive AoE that nets free hits when combo'd after Q or E), his E is an unholy mix-match of Syndra's W and E that is far too powerful before I even mention the true damage, and his ultimate, while interesting, features an AD/AP reduction that is just a random band-aid and does absolutely nothing for him in any scenario, not to mention the fact that he can interrupt himself mid-ult by dashing to a singularity whose time is running out because of the 4 seconds it takes.