User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/Is Siphoning Strike too strong?/@comment-3308937-20131105140413/@comment-3308937-20131105205436

Yeah, that's true. His whole kit makes Siphoning a huge monster but it is a monster on its own and that isn't something that you should overlook.

Pretty much his whole kit revolves around maximizing Siphoning's use, the magic damage on E and the health shred on E and R make it so that if you build armor to counter Siphoning you're going to be punished. The armor reduction on E makes it so unless you're going pure armor you're going to get chunked hard. His passive and the attack speed reduction on W lets him stay alive longer for more Siphonings and the slow on his W makes it so you can't get away from the pimp cane Siphoning.

His kit actually meshes together really well but, in the same aspect, his other skills become weaker if Siphoning gets nerfed and the opposite is true where Siphoning gets weaker if the other skills get nerfed.