User blog comment:Alien Paranoid/Volibear: Champion rework/@comment-25235491-20161105133630/@comment-25235491-20161106175241

Okay, I'll treat things point by point.
 * "energy slowly decreases after being powered by lightning - means decreasing attack speed + it's new mechanics in the game"

- Alien Paranoid New isn't always good, and I think there's no decaying attack speed buff in the game for a reason - mostly because your attack speed decreases midway through a basic attack, which may or may not bump down the attack animation speed and whatnot - a pretty dastardly source of trouble.
 * "His niche is meatshield, chasing people down, locking single target for his team while doing good amount of aoe damage"

- Alien Paranoid That's way too long to describe a niche. Besides, as far as lore goes, his niche is being an armored bear - ans it's impossible to stop a bear charging your path.
 * "Q and E switched for the same reason as Hecarim has his Q,E (Q spammable, E strong engage - higher CD). Every champion has his main, spammable ability on Q."

- Alien Paranoid I don't think it's exactly true, plus we don't want Volibear to be another Hecarim, now do we? Switching keys just to mirror another champion is base-breaking at best, if because of copying another champion and muscle memory issues you're going to create.
 * "Q has low CD with some CDr, so slow would make the problem of permaslow."

- Alien Paranoid Gotta agree with that, but a 30% slow for 3 seconds every seconds isn't the unhealthiest thing in the game. Though the addition of a stun that can be somewhat-guaranteed (autoattack, fling with the aa reset, another autoattack, W = free 1.25 second stun) would make this an issue.
 * "I removed damage from his W"

- Alien Paranoid If anything, I think it's a buff since it's way easier to use and when the enemies are at max health it's going to deal tons of damage.
 * "E's fear is situational and unhealthy"

- Alien Paranoid I don't think it's that "situational and unhealthy". It's certainly unique and allows Volibear to force trades top in otherwise unfavorable situations, and with the presence of ranged top-laners he would need that boost. In the jungle it may be a bit strong, but if we don't see Volibear since Season 2 ("League of Bruisers"), it may not be as powerful as you're painting it.
 * "He was always weak and bad champion if behind (not enough tanky, no execution on W)"

- Alien Paranoid Erm, he has the execute on W.
 * Overall, the problem is more how you did the rework. You merely shuffled some effects around and called it a day. Besides, I don't think you buffed his chasing ability at all - merely made him less kiteable with that new Rolling Thunder passive.