User blog comment:LivesByProxy/Oracle, the World's Witness/@comment-26815373-20160319050824

A friend's critique, saved here for reference:

There are some very interesting ideas here the theme is strong lots of flavor of course, you're basically a pro at that aspect of designing But I think balance is an issue with many of the abilities and I'm worried that many of these abilities would wind up being anti-fun the 2nd part of the passive basically makes the player feel like oracle's abilities are on a separate server on the other side of the world (it would feel super laggy) They definitely serve to help balance the kit, and help with the theme, but I think it would ultimately not feel good For example, waiting 2 seconds for the box to activate on shaco can feel like an unfair eternity sometimes as someone mentioned, Hypgnosis is crazy op. At level 5 that ability is basically a more reliable amumu ult with an extra .25 second stun and significantly more damage Although it does have a channel time I still think it would be more reliable than amumu's ult this could maybe be remedied with significant number tweaks, or making it stun all champions (but maybe only dealing damage to enemies) or something but I'm still not sure about that because AOE stuns aren't very fun to deal with Fate's Edict is interesting, but Riot has said before that their experimentation with slowing projectiles hasn't been very successful it throws off player's timings and is generally not very effective according to them the first part of the passive also seems really op to me, vision is so valuable to be able to safely check all around you would make the team so safe movement speed would be core on this champ mobi boots + alacrity would be bought before sightstone in lane I would leave the passive in the river Obfuscate is a really cool move but again, in the right hands it could turn an entire fight Similar situation with Sanctuary. It's such a cool idea in terms of feel/flavor like it would feel so good to use the ability but man I would hate to play against this champion lol basically we have a teamfight, the most exciting part of the game

and then oracle goes, nah, everyone has to be unable to do anything for several seconds