User blog comment:Elphrihaim/Eliwan, the Prince of Magic/@comment-24377865-20140710002732/@comment-5961106-20140712010320

@META: Sorry, Tristana's Explosive Shot counts as two abilities to you? Eliwan's W and E, though each has two names, has a single passive and single active. His Q has 4 actives, thus it is four 'abilities', but if it were to have a passive I would still think of it as 'one ability with 4 actives and 1 passive'.

Lee Sin does not have 7 abilites, nor does Tristana's Explosive Shot count as two abilities, in my mind.

If I were including passives that are on abilities, Jayce would have 10 abilities to Nidalee's 9.

@Primus: Magic Blade is hardly an innate passive any more than all 4 Ninjas receiving a buff at the start of the game that says ": This unit is a flippin' Ninja". It's not a passive per se, it's a persistently applied status that applies to Eliwan at all times.

Additionally, Melodious Aura and Entare Matrix, though like Lightning Surge and Tri Star as well as Rending Wind and Particle Storm, 'has' an extra name, it is only one effect that is divided for additional clarity, an excuse to have the text be broken up into more digestible chunks.

So I'm still confused, does Tristana have 6 abilities (Innate, Q, W, E, E, R)? Does Lee Sin have 8 (Innate, Q, Q, W, W, E, E, R)? Does Nidalee have 10 (Innate, Innate, Q, RQ, W, RW, E, RE, R, R)? Does Jayce have 10 (Innate, Q, Q, W, W, W, E, E, R, R)?

Because that's the logic that I'm seeing on this train.