User blog comment:JmLyan/CCC2, Asalyn, the Archmage/@comment-5663427-20140530162307/@comment-7709681-20140530194619

@ ErdamonPL: The ult isn't complicated, but self-contradictory. Both the target and yourself, the user, aren't suppose to use their ultimates (in the user's case the second component of the ability) and yet the ability has a second component to use.

And if you look carefully, all the basic abilities have 15 ranks, meaning that the intention at its best was that you completely maxed a basic ability and the ultimate, but that would leave you with two less abilities; at the other side of the problems you'll have the traditional scheme of leveling, 5 for each basic ability and 3 for the ult, resulting in a non-existing passive. All of this, as you said, is unpractical.

And I must admit, you may sound too apathetic with those last words of your statement, sorry. :S