Where do I begin...
No, his insanity existed long before 1.06, in fact the most recent patch was one of the more minor patches overall. Vanilla Bane WAS the worst character, even worse than Vanilla joker, and it stems from a lot more than just his issues getting in. The sentence about the dash buff and venom tweak is the only accurate one. Technology like wake-up stuffing was existent from day 1, it was the only thing we had and it was grinded out long before that first patch came around. He was bottom 5 for a long long while. I'd say 1.04 onwards was where he emerged beyond that marker to be a convincing mid-tier, albeit still not viable without a second. Full circle, 1.06 didn't give Bane much; He was pretty potent before the patch, but 1.06 eliminated some big threats and gave us Mb VU on block, and people had begun to actually pay attention for once which is why he seems to have come out of nowhere when in reality he never left.
I give credit to Grr for being the first one to really make that recent landmark first, as his round of win over KDZ's prepatch superman got people raising their eyebrows.
