User blog comment:HoukaiEU/Iroh, the Puppet Master/@comment-8737590-20130429225540

His stats are waaay too low to ever be able to survive in lane or jungle. He would literally die to a minion in one shot, and it would take him forever to even get off the fountain. As far as his moves, they're either waay to weak for what they do, or else way too strong. I mean, look at his E. 100% of his AP? Let's say he maxes his E by lv. 9 and has 100 AP by this point. Add in what his move does, and we're looking at 300+ damage by lv. 9. And with the magic pen ignore from his dolls, up to 20% of that winds up unresisted. Even with it costing all of his mana, people will keep his E taped down with a 1 second CD and that kind of AP scaling. Then we get to the other OP move, his ulti. The ally cast isn't so bad, if we ignore the 1 second tape-down-your-hotkey cooldown. The enemy cast is where I draw my grievances with this move. Look at Yoric's Omen of Death or Mordekaizer's Children of the Grave. Neither one goes above 50% or 60% stats in any of their puppets, yet this ulti STARTS there and scales up to 80%. A little strong, especially for a replica that only lasts 15 seconds. It's an amazing concept, but you need to tweak his stats to more reasonable numbers and tone down his moves damage output before he stands a shot at being viable.