User blog comment:Xyclone010/What's the matter with CC?/@comment-15244341-20140927073034

Aatrox has slows because his ass is so kiteable it's not funny. With the mobility creep in LoL (which is a thing) melee champions with no dashes/jumps/blinks would be shit withouth some sort of crowd control to compensate. Think playing Garen vs Trist. How the hell are you supposed to stick to her for the duration of spin to win? You can't, because you have a melee autoattack range silence. Welp. It sounds like a ranged AoE slow would be better, right (Aatrox).

Also, Riot is removing silence because silence skews those champions' matchups in their lanes way too hard in their favor. Take a look at where do those champions go: midlane. What happens when you silenced you lane opponent as LB? They could do shit, since mages with a silence can't even trade with autos. Also, all those silences had no counterplay. Any decent LB would proc it instantly and deal a truckload of damage with it, go back and wait for the cooldown. Talon and Kass just point and click, then you were dead. Compare to Malzahar: it is REALLY easy to avoid that silence. It has counterplay. Compare to Garen: you have to let him melee you for it to even activate.

If you can't believe me, go back to pre-nerf LB. How many mages were played midlane? Ori, with shield max to survive lane. That's it. LB by herself completely invalidated all mid mages, because she just shat on them way too hard. This is why some silences are being gutted. Because with zero counterplay they just make the champion unbeatable in lane by sooo many matchups it isn't even funny.