User blog comment:Emptylord/2017 Patch Notes (Unofficial)/@comment-24951773-20170724050537/@comment-3974211-20170724144119

Innate - That is another possibility. The direction I went it was intent on giving him windows of up time so that enemies had windows of down time to exploit. I've always liked how they reworked, in that regard.

Q - Yes, it's Leoric's ultimate. I've never understood why it's Leoric's ultimate, to be honest, even in Heroes of the Storm it isn't ultimate-tier and it's generally never used compared to his 1v1-me-scrub cage. Mordekaiser will use it better. >:)

E - I was content with the animation change for "what is it siphoning", to be honest, even if that is a little unimaginative.

R - I concede you are probably right. I'll admit I was a little driven by the interaction it has with Kalista's new ultimate - it makes for a non-harmful lore interaction within gameplay. But that definitely isn't a reason to keep the ability, if a better one is available.

I might change the E passive to just be bonus movement speed while stealthed as part of W's effect, and thus chasing after someone would be reliant on landing his Q - as it probably should be. It almost defeats the purpose of his Q if he has too many other means of engaging quickly.