Talk:VPBE/@comment-24385282-20150829010506/@comment-24385282-20150829201559

His ult may be doing 80 less base damage at max rank, but with the change of his passive to physical from magic damage (meaning it benefits from Apprehend's armor penetration), his passive being fully applied instantly on attacks/Decimate if he's killed a champion with his ult or applied max stacks to any other champion, and gaining 40-200 bonus attack damage on top of that more than makes up for it.

And while the Q delay and base damage nerf is nice as well, it's actually doing way more damage if he hits the blade, on top of which he's even getting healed for huge amounts. Furthermore, he's got a 90% slow up from 0% on Apprehend, and a hugely increased slow on Crippling Strike as well as more damage at rank 1 (if he gets his passive damage increase, he's doing more even at max rank). I personally think his passive is what really needs the nerf, and possibly the missing health scaling on his Q could be reduced but have a higher cap.