User blog comment:MrSuperSpy/Shairvante, the Lunatic Blade/@comment-25115166-20141016014020/@comment-7709681-20141016153013

@ Mr. SuperSpy: "Denying him early completely stops him from doing any source of damage late game, which is his best pro." - Do you realize that he still possess his innate passive, the hypothetically infinite source of Attack Speed from Q, and the passive and active bonuses from the ult, right?

Because for what I see he pretty much isn't reliant of even farming (Which sounds horrible) nor leveling up, he just needs to autoattack enemy units and he'll get his later-game, and that can't be countered; and don't say that he doesn't deal damage later-game if denied, even if he can't farm he still gets the ridiculous amount of free stats from his kit, plus two forms to reset his already short cooldowns, all of his damaging spells can crit., max. health true damage on-hit (Which, since you didn't specified, can crit. to) and his abilities cost nothing.