User blog comment:Degritone/Zero, the Machinegun Mage/@comment-7709681-20141102043012/@comment-25364408-20141102072259

The forcing him to go AP thing was on purpose. Why wouldn't you be spamming W on waves of minions, anyway? I could increase the damage from the pet, but if you take every hit from it, you take 185% AP (+ 37% target AP) damage already. For the ult, why WOULDN'T you want to do 700 / 600 / 500% AP every 1.4 / 1.2 / 1 seconds? The damage reduction is only if you're an idiot who refuses to attack the same champion 7 / 6 / 5 times. After that, it's an insane damage increase, as seen two sentances ago, but with double the time when without the ult.

Allowing him to go AD would be quite powerful, as he starts with max attack speed. All he would need to do is build straight AD or whatever crit he wants. ADCs build AD and AS. There's no need to have someone who can reduce the amount of items he needs to buy in half.

Honestly, with the lore I wrote, I should add some damage to the explosion, but if you've waited that long to use it, you're doing something wrong. Speaking of the lore, I should probably add it... Meh. Maybe later.

The pet isn't meant to be like the Dong's turrets and be a big source of damage, they're supposed to be a reason to divert aggro when chasing him, as you'll be sitting in its range for a nice while, especially if he dances around it, making it do a nice deal of damage. But, again, it's not something meant to say "Hey, focus me!" it's meant to say "Don't stay near here for very long."

His ult can be very powerful, especially with flash being a thing. See a bunch of champions near each other? Flash, ult, boom. There went at least one squishy, if not two, and your team should be close enough to follow up.

700 / 600 / 500% AP damage every 2.8 / 2.4 / 2 seconds from level one? Yes please. Pretty sure every mage would love that. Heck, it doesn't even have to be consecutive autoattacks. You could ready up passive procs on a group of champs, and when they're about to leave your range, proc your passive for massive damage.