User blog comment:Elphrihaim/Eliwan, the Prince of Magic/@comment-24377865-20140710002732/@comment-5961106-20140714013752

Tristana's E, Explosive Shot, has two effects.

1. If Explosive Shot is off of cooldown, then killing an enemy will deal damage around that enemy's corpse.

2. Deal damage over time to an enemy during which it is affected by Grevious Wounds.

So I don't see why you're bringing up Draw A Bead, because I said that that was one passive, one ability. I said that going by what META mahn said, Tristana has 5 abilities (6 counting Innate).

The wikia has defined, under range, that basic attack range is "125 to 175 for melee units and 425 to 650 for ranged units." Aatrox's ult increases his attack range to 325, and he maintains his melee status, Hecarim's Devastating Charge does as well, and Rengar's passive grants him a 600/750 ranged leap. Eliwan's attack range is distinctly not melee, but it is also not ranged. Thus, a buff is added for clarity, that Eliwan is neither melee nor ranged for those items, since his attack is too short to be ranged and too long to be melee. To be perfectly honest, if I was being pedantic (which I wasn't for the sake of making it easy), I would have said that 'if there is a difference between melee and ranged effects on an item (besides Tiamat, Ravenous, and Hurricane, which Eliwan cannot benefit from), Eliwan recieves an averaged buff between the two states'. Example-- Ghostblade before the duration change would have had a 5s duration for Eliwan, but 4s for ranged and 6s for melee.

No, I don't count them as separate abilities, because to me an ability is 'a combination of effects that are assigned to a single hotkey'. Eliwan's Q has 4 actives, thus 4 effects, but is still a single ability because it has one hotkey.

TF's W has 2 actives (start rotating, selection), and 3 effects. How many abilities is that? I'd say one, but you could argue that it's 3 (Red, Gold, Blue).

I don't say that Yasuo has two innate passives, I say that Yasuo's innate passive has two distinct effects, to give a more clear example. They're part of his Innate passive, "Way of the Wanderer", and are named "Intent" and "Resolve" to allow you to easily distinguish the fact that they have no relation to one another except for the fact that they are both part of his Innate Passive.

What do you mean by "you're not redacting your work properly"? I honestly don't understand that.

I would say that Pantheon's E is 1 ability with 1 passive and 1 active effect. I would say that Jayce has two stances each of which has 3 abilities, not that he has 6 abilities. If you wanted, you could argue that he has his Innate, his 'switch to hammer', and 'switch to cannon' as 3 separate abilities, if you think "Passive and Active" is two separate abilities then his Lightning Field is two abilities, hence my given 9 (10 counting Innate).

Does.. does that make sense? Let me sum up responding to each paragraph.

1. Yes.

2. Eliwan is neither melee nor ranged as defined by range's page. Magic Blade exists for clarifying this fact, since it may not be readily obvious.

3. No, I don't; and if I did, I would also count any passive + active ability even if that passive was not named, I would also count any ability that has more than one effect as being 'more than one ability'.

4. I honestly don't understand the last part "[I'm] not redacting [my] work correctly". At all.