User blog comment:MrSuperSpy/Aerida, the Infernal Queen/@comment-3391671-20151213154335/@comment-25519324-20151213173940

Couple of clarifications for your items:


 * The passive's base duration is 4 seconds, I accidentally deleted that when i replaced her damage reduction (originally) with movement speed, and her auto-attacks increase the shield's points, not any armor or magic resistance she has.


 * Cursed Zone is, rationally thinking, weak for a high-cooldown ability that requires so many factors to make it powerful, if you think about it, a Rabadon solely increases its range by 80 at most in radius and its damage by 150 without any other items. The only reliable thing in this ability is its initial damage and its heal, which to clarify, heals for 1.5% max. health (I buffed it prior to your post) every time it damages ANY enemy, not per enemy damaged, making the max. heal 12% max. health over the 4 seconds the zone is active. Prior to your post, I reduced the damage a bit, because honestly it was too high.


 * You're absolutely right about the W, so that's why I changed it to Aerida's max. health instead of enemies' max. health.


 * All that Melting Gust needed was its CC adjusted slightly. It's a pretty unique ability, that is correct, which requires smart positioning to utilize perfectly. And more clarification, the initial target is not automatically applied the effects of the aftershock, just the on-hit bonus damage.


 * Aerida is very slow to kill enemies, so this ability is made to make up for that, giving her conditional power while fighting 1v1. Included in is also a pretty necessary buff to her tenacity. When you think about it, she is is prone to kiting, it's kind of ridiculous. She is supposed to be a juggernaut, but compared to other juggernauts, she doesn't even have any speed-ups in her kit that she can access at any time. The only speed-up is in her passive which is very powerful, but needs a lot of in-taking poke to use. If I remember correctly, juggernauts are supposed to be harmless from a distance, but deadly up-close.

She's not so much of a mage, because she doesn't have any reliable spells that can actually chunk a bit of health off the enemy.