User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120807232830/@comment-1957439-20120808012601

The line between opinion and fact is thick and bold.

"Ionic Spark deals 125 magic damage to up to 4 targets every 4 attacks, provides health, and provides attack speed. Wit's End deals 42 magic damage to a single target on-hit, provides magic resistance, provides attack speed, and provides temporary additional magic resistance per attack that stacks up to four times." These are facts.

Everything you said is opinion. Opinion does not belong here, in my opinion. You act as though "knowledge", the cumulative information regarding the purpose and usefulness of all things as perceived by all people, is fact.

"A stick found on the forest floor can be used as a backscratcher," is opinion.

"One may find a stick on the forest floor and hold it in one's hand as one directs the rough texture of the stick to rub against one's back in order to calm one's irritatation due to an itching sensation," is still opinion.

"A stick may have a rough texture and a length greater than its thickness by a significant margin," and, "An itching sensation may be relieved through rubbing against or being rubbed by rough textures," are facts.

Perception is completely removed from factual information. If I said what you said in facts, it would end up reading as...

"I have just experimented with the items I choose to buy while playing the Teemo champion. In this particular experiment, I chose to substitute the Ionic Spark item for the Wit's End item. The results of this substitution were apparent to me; I was able to deal more damage to groups of minions. It is my opinion that the Teemo champion will survive longer by purchasing the Wit's End item rather than purchasing the Ionic Spark item. The health provided by the Ionic Spark item allows Teemo to receive more damage, regardless of what type of damage and only in relation to not having purchased the Ionic Spark item, without dying. The health provided by the Frozen Mallet item, combined with the health provided by the Ionic Spark item, is a significant increase to the amount of damage that can be received before dying, in comparison to the amount of damage that could be received before dying without having purchased any items, and increases the amount of damage than can be taken before dying regardless of the type of damage. It is my opinion that the Ionic Spark item should be purchased on Teemo if that Teemo is not the preferred target of the enemy team members in team fights."

Fun, right? No, I will assume you don't think this looks fun at all. However, the above is what you are trying to convey without the opinion woven in - the opinions are outright stated and exist apart from the statements which only serve to reiterate the functions of the items in question. Ionic Spark gives health. Wit's End gives magic resistance. Anything that regards how you feel about the usefulness of the statistic bonuses provided by these items is opinion.

Anything that can be proven wrong if stated as a fact is opinion.

"Wit's End allows Teemo to take more damage than Ionic Spark allows Teemo to." Physical and true damage both prove that statement wrong. This doesn't mean that you're wrong, this just means that context is missing. You probably feel that Wit's End allows Teemo to live longer because magic damage comes from most champions in some form, and that's alright. However, unless you go to the lengths of explaining that, your vague statement remains opinion. Even still, without statistical evidence and only more vague "average" statements like, "The average champion deals magic damage of some kind," it still remains as an opinion. Your words must paint the very situations in which your opinion becomes fact - only then will it be anything but an opinion.

"The enemy team is LeBlanc, Karthus, Morgana, Fiddlesticks, and Galio." Not good enough. Ignite, Lich Bane, surprise RADC LeBlanc build, etc.

"None of them have Lich Bane, and all of them are building ability power items." Still not good enough. Ignite.

"Excluding true damage, Teemo will survive longer in the situation of fighting a primarily magic damage dealing champion with little to no interest in dealing physical damage through basic attacks by purchasing the Wit's End item instead of the Ionic Spark item." Now we're talking. But...

"Granted, also, that the Wit's End item provides enough magic resistance that, after reductions and penetration, Teemo can resist more damage than if he had instead gained the health bonus provided by the Ionic Spark item."

That's a very long-winded way of saying, "It is if it actually is." "Wit's End will give Teemo greater survivability than Ionic Spark if Wit's End as a single contributing factor to Teemo's survivability in regard to everything else Teemo has and how the abilities and statistics of enemy champions effect them gives more survivability to Teemo than Ionic Spark as a single contributing factor to Teemo's survivability in regard to everything else Teemo has and how the abilities and statistics of enemy champions effect them."

Of course no one wants to put this much effort into something just to be able to call the information factual. You have to recognize, however, that there are too many factors in player versus player League of Legends just to go around saying what you think without direct reference to the situation and direct account for every action ever undertaken. That's why your opinion doesn't matter; by the time you take the time to explain it to someone else as fact, you'll realize that the people you're trying to explain it to already know. "More damage to more targets pushes lanes faster." "Magic resistance lowers incoming magic damage."

Why mask the truth with your opinion and make it harder for people to be successful through their own effort?