User blog comment:Chase999/Anew, The Vitalis Somnum/@comment-3391671-20160531075631/@comment-26378838-20160601124956

"I do not see NuminousJ's reasoning to make it larger (unless he thought he needed a large enough AoE to deal the damage, (...))."

The reasoning behind me supporting a larger radius was that it was just a bit shorter than the AA radius, which would undoubtedly create confusion to players since most of them would probably assume the point-blank AoE would reach the same targets Anew's basic attacks reached which wasn't the case. Also, in the pre-revision version it did pitiful damage, so it might as well throw a 50 unit bone at the ability.

Now with all the revisions, the mechanic should be modified from a point-blank AoE to a skillshot AoE and then reduce its radius to 300, or another kind of gameplay clunkiness might ensue.