User blog comment:Emptylord/Season 3 - PBE Patch Notes/@comment-5517958-20121116232934

I feel that homeguard is very very powerful at all stages in the game, and might even produce many stalemates.

I mean, early on whenever you go b, not only do you have to not worry about a few extra seconds taken by healing, but you get a mini ghost to help you get back to lane faster. Sure it degrades over time, but even 1 second of 175-200% MS boost is a lot of distance, even taking into account deminishing returns in MS.

In late game:

If you are losing, you can begin to wittle down their pushes by going back and forth from spawn to the fight. Base turret fights would be a bit tricky, but it would be hell for the enemy team to try and take down nexus/nexus turrets.

If you are winning, it is easier to regroup inbetween attacks because going b after a fight to heal wouldn't waste as much time as before. Allowing you to constantly hammer the enemy team.