Decided to look towards completely reworking his kit to reduce reliance on Butcher's Brand and giving him a new ult. Stats are, again, completely unbalanced, but tell me if you see any major design flaws or if these things don't actually fix his issues.

This makes a lot of sense. Thank you. I've been talking with a friend and have come to the conclusion that not only is farming minions still dumb even if you don't lose it upon death, but the heal I wanted to provide is also useless. I will rework things accordingly.

thanks for the response. My initial idea was to make his trait more like Tryndamere's from League of Legends, although I do agree that the decay might be a bit much. Increasing attack speed as a temporary buff is a nice idea, although I'm really fond of the extra survivability that the trait would bring, instead of focusing even more on his W, which is a very easy to counter ability. Q probably should just get a base range increase, and I agree that the -armour debuff is a bit too good,...