User blog comment:JBox2D/Sheraze: A zone control mage with a twist/@comment-24036535-20141008014527/@comment-24090662-20141008225857

I said in the description why it's an innate: I don't want one of her basic ability slots taken up by the flame creation, which probably ends up being "aoe damage and make a flame" or something like that and is boring. The point is that she has this innate which makes them, and then every one of her other abilities manipulates them.

Her Q is an AoE knockup, not really a spammable thing. Her low cooldown ability is E with a 0.5 global cooldown and at max rank only 4 seconds per flame. At any rate, not every champion needs a low cooldown spammable ability. Lux has pretty long cooldowns, for example.

I'm not sure about the resist reduction, i just wanted there to be some kind of reason for enemies to not want to be inside the gate even without being hit. The idea of a self-buff is kind of cool, I'll play around with it.

She doesn't really have an ability that could be balanced if spammable for the third idea to work. Except maybe W, which could maybe have a significantly lower (~2 seconds) cooldown when going between two points on the gate. Remember that the gate itself can be moved.

Not sure where you're getting the DoT from? Her passive does not apply spell effects the damage is basically cosmetic, and everything else apart from E does high damage on a long cooldown. I could see some Shadow Rage centric build working but she should be primarily an AoE nuker given her other abilities.