User blog comment:Draven, the Glorious Executioner/CB1 - Aftraia, the Enlightened/@comment-533780-20150328032623/@comment-26188361-20150329032901

So for the shield there will be an icon keeping track of how many stacks have been applied while not broken/not on cooldown correct? The concept of having a shield that has to stack is a bit hard for my mind to wrap around since I immediately think of Bloodthirster's passive, which just keeps building the shield until a threshhold. Also, at 3 stacks Aftraia can't repair his shield again until 6 seconds after someone breaks it in full? Is that correct? Still quite understandable though, just need personal clarity.

I thought the ult previously said that Aftraia was channeling for the 2 seconds that he was leashing his enemies. Didn't that already prevent him from doing anything until a leash broke? Well anyway, now he's untargetable for the 2 seconds.... Along with all of the stance activations after the leashing and a Zhonyas active this guy takes nearly no damage for 5.25 seconds? That's amazing, and still balanced. He has pretty much no gap closer or crowd control that can really take advantage of the immense persistent effect of his ult, and he also doesn't seem to initiate well without flash, again because he has no strong cc outside of his ult. And, again again, without dashes/sustained cc he really can't escape even with his ~4.5 seconds of invincibility against enemies with more than 1 cc. It would force enemies to chill for those 4.5 seconds which would allow for your buddies to poke or engage if the ult caught a good amount of the enemy team.

So no one would want to fight him head-on, but they sure can't ignore him because of his ult. However while he can disrupt and survive, he can't fight as well since everyone (esp. ranged champs) walks circles around him. Is that correct?

Loving this champ now that I have taken the time to look past the numbers (+150% to all persistent affects was astonishing). Aftraia gives the enemy the choice of performing futile acts of evil unto him and being crushed, or being wary of his presence and staying the fig out of his way; thus reducing him to a peaceful monk on the battlefield. Balanced yes. Like Scudmarx said this champ would be a nightmare to go against, but the greatest solution is just to not mess with the monk.

Also apologies for missing the first line of the post.