User blog comment:Lykrast/A suggestion about Flash/@comment-3466579-20130707120105

Your suggestion number 2 will just switch the "overused" issue to boots. Everyone will buy those boots since flash is invaluable compared to the other stats provided by boots, not to mention that most of these stats (tenacity, attack speed, magic penetration, armor and magic resist...) can be acquired thanks to other items.

Your suggestion number 1 will make flash a lot less powerful disengage tool.

When it comes down to flash one should try to understand why this spell is so popular. In my opinion flash is almost always used in order to have a blink spell when your champion does not have one. Without flash all those champions with "built in flashes" or dashes, or even with movement speed boost will just dominate the champions without mobility skills.

Flash SHOULD be an option for those champions without the aforementioned mobility skills and this understanding of flash make it quite difficult to try and balance (nerfing, in this case) the spell.

In my opinion, instead of focusing on how to nerf flash we should focus on Ghost, for example. Buff his movement speed bonus and reduce its duration. Make it like 40% (60% with masteries) for 6 or 7 seconds. Maybe we should focus on Exhaust, making it so that blink or dashes skills or spells have their range halved, while buffing its duration and removing the damage and defences debuff. Or we can take these ideas and make a completely new summoner spell.

Flash isn't the problem, since it just make possible for low mobility champions to fight against high mobility ones. The problem is how to counter flash and, at the moment, you can only counter it with another flash or a built in blink.