Talk:Singed/@comment-112.198.90.218-20130307005148/@comment-217.92.235.191-20130307095201

He was always overpowered with ultimate up and weak without it.

The effective counter play to Singed is to wait out his ultimate and engage on his team afterwards. If Singed gets ahead or stays even in the laning phase, you can't do that, because he can force a fight just by running in with ult and Ghost. His ultimate just doesn't have counter play, but it has been okay for so long, because he was easy to beat down early game. With S3 this is no longer the case, because Boots got nerfed and you can actually start with tons of sustain items.

The nerf will force Singed into getting Tenacity (no more Boots of Swiftness) and his laning phase will get a lot weaker. AP glyphs may no longer be worth it.