User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/My second attempt at balancing (hopefully better this time) + skin ideas/@comment-25293814-20140812004707

Just want to make a few points known:

Akali doesn't need to be touched at all really: Her mediocre laning phase makes her easy to harass and bully. Once she gets 6 it shouldn't be too much of a problem for the other laner, as long as they can land their CC or kite her (and she's weak to ganks). Her teamfight is weak as well. Pink wards + CC > Akali.

They made a change that I liked to Zed in the PBE: A lower CD on his W and having 0 energy cost at rank 5. The indirect nerfs really hurt Zed (he's probably the weakest assassin right now), because of the reworked BoRK and Bloodthirster. With those nerfs to damage, it would be great if they could grant him some more mobility.

No change to Swain (if you do, buff him). Positioning is extremely crutial for Swain, and one mistake will have you blown up. It just has to do with how well coordinated the enemy team is, as Swain lacks range for his Ult with his mobility issues (kiting + assassins > Swain).

Shaco is fine: Strong early (counter jungling + ganking), bad late game. Just a fun character.

Kassadin + Lee Sin: No reworks, Riot will get destroyed if they do. Kassadin was a very good rework, and Lee has to stay because he's Lee. Every game needs a God character.

Quinn needs a rework (being a close range ADC was her concept, Lucian took over with that rework to his E).

Draven is fine where he is: The strong damage he does compensates for being the hardest ADC in the game.

Fiora rework is needed. She is a monster at low elo, and trash at high elo.

For Evelynn, Riot was smart with what they did. Nerf base damages but buff ratios. Now a tanky Eve can't 4 shot the ADC or something dumb like that.

Renekton is fine where he is as well: Lane bully, terrible late game. Shen outscales this lizard.

Nautilus needs lower CDs lol... What are you going to do with an 18 sec CD for your W?...

They're reworking Viktor btw (there was a teaser about a 150 AP augment picture).

It's funny how Rengar replaced Kha'zix, lol. Kha'zix needs his evolved ult back (at least like a 30% damage reduction).

Nerfs to Kog'Maw and Corki are needed, or at least buffs to other ADCs.

They're eventually going to rework Warwick.

Jax is fine where he is (other option is to nerf). Best duelist in the game + insane late game. He doesn't have many faults other than just being melee (ranged jax sounds GREAT).

By the way, the nerf to LeBlanc wasn't big at all. It just showed that LeBlanc shouldn't be an old Kassadin. Melt someone > Jump out > repeat. She has the same damage (enough to one shot an ADC + the other midlaner) as before. A strong centered mid game with a mediocre late game.

Those are my thoughts. Good read btw 11/10.