Thread:Lesdin/@comment-7709681-20180220205028/@comment-7709681-20180303231647

Now that my neurones aren't killing me as yesterday (I've been through a lot of stress in the past week, and tried my best to be communicative with you and at the same time not discharge myself with you unfairly), I realize two of your concerns:

It shouldn't come as a surprise that her core items are Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Protobelt, and her preffered Boots being Berserker Greaves, Lucidity Boots and Sorcerer's Shoes, with everything else being at the player's choice, nor that she can work as a jungler and therefore being able to go Chilling Smite and user W herself reliably. Changing how her defense or mobility works, as I mentioned in earlier comments, can easility break her: As she's AP-based, she can build Protobelt, imagine if she had reliable mobility on top, I don't want another Fizz, Ekko, LeBlanc or Yasuo going around.
 * As a Battlemage she lacks defensive capabilities, the thing is that none of the champions with an integrated revive effect have defense, rather their defense comes in the form prolonged durability such as resource sustain (health or mana, depending of the case), and in some cases have no sustain and just the revival. She isn't meant to resist the fray, she's expected to die and make the best out of it, but most importantly notice when is the right moment to die, like other posthumous effects (Sion, Karthus and Yorick's old R, or even a more stretched case like Tryndamere's R, are my primary examples). Being an exposed nerve is on purpose.
 * As an Skirmisher, her initial lack of reliable mobility isn't much of a problem, specially when you consider others that either have spammable yet limited mobility (like Fiora) or have little (ms boosts) to no mobility in exchange of other tools (like Gangplank). Remember that this isn't an Assassin, in her case mobility is meant for persecution and initiation (for being a Battlemage), not escaping, repositioning and even less for navigation. W's activation can charge faster the more exposed to combat she is as it charges from her crits and spellcasts (including her own, which makes spamming Q more effective), and as there's no restrictions on the recharge, charges it faster with her blinks.
 * Even with these two, I think is your line of thought is that you're seeing her in a vacuum, what she as a champion offers and lacks in comparison to others of her class, and those irking sacrifices made in exchange of other things, yet though interactions she can overcome this weakness:
 * She can overcome the lack of defense with Adaptative Helm, Seraph's Embrace and Stopwatch/Guardian Angel/Zhonya's Hourglass, as well as Taste of Blood, Ingenious Hunter (to further reduce her item's cooldowns), Nullifying Orb and Bone Plating, and even take Barrier and Heal with her. All of these with cooldowns will be reduced on-hit.
 * She can overcome the unreliable mobility Hextech Protobelt and Spellbinder, or even by adding slows to her kit with Rylai's and Hextech GLP, as well as Predator, Relentless Hunter, Phase Rush, Celerity (which synergyzes with the ult), Hextech Flashtraption, and even take Smite and Ignite, or Flash and Teleport. All of these with cooldowns will be reduced on-hit, and those that can deal damage, as well as allies' abilities (specially multi-target, AoEs and DoTs) can apply W's mark.
 * For sustain, she can have Seraph's to refund her mana, as well as going with Presence of Mind, Manaflow Band, Fleet Footwork and Taste for Blood.
 * All of the aforementioned with any cooldowns can be reduced on-hit, as well as synergizing with Ludicity Boots, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight (which synergyses with her Innate and other CDR scaling components of her kit) and Unsealed Spellbook, and any of the aforementioned that deals ability damage, as well as her allies' abilities, can apply W's mark.

There's no grace in giving the player options if all the answer are granted by the kit, else just build the items that grant the most statistics and be done with it.

If I had to say a problem is that the unreliability of her mobility doesn't come from the source ability itself but the reliable source application available, being her E, which personally is the only ability of the kit, as it stands, that I would rework.

Hope I don't come to sound harsh and this grants some clarity and perspective. :Tc