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Hit everything that he had left, and the changes to passive, E and the buff to W barely mean much. He needs cooldown adjustments and a buff to the AP ratio on his passive.
Pray people stop playing him in Pro, no other way for him to be made viable for soloq.
Riot have already shown with many champs that they don't care about low soloq winrates 
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Even though he was fine in terms of play rate and win rate, consequently usually being on the low side -- the presence and performance he shows in pro play is too dominant to ignore.
They didn't really compensate any of his power to accommodate that other tiers actually play him, and would prefer if he was good rather than struggling to perform to regular benchmarks independently because of a top 1%.
Tried a couple of games, I feel he's mostly fine. The only buff I would like to see is his passive damage to minions upped again, instead of reducing it all the way to 30% take it back up to 60% or something like that. His waveclear is just bad now without absurd amounts of AP. Also, I really like 
on him, it allows you to effectively make use of the 2 charge mechanic on his passive and it also shortens your downtime between spellcasts (only W resets his AA).
If you hit E2 I think he can still fight well enough. I'm far more concerned about his waveclear being gutted. Also going to try to build on him to see if it's worth it with the buffed passive. Also, PBE 
seems like a REALLY good fit on him, so let's hope that makes it through unscathed.
I'd really like it if AP bruiser Sylas would become viable, seems like that's what he's designed to be.