User blog comment:Kikanolo/Channel DoTs/@comment-9048637-20140511112902

How is it unfair that a chanelled spell should get a couple of ticks of practically guaranteed damage? A channel is already a high risk for the caster. They root themselves in place, render themselves unable to take any other action (bar using certain summoner spells and item actives), and on top of that, chances are they just put a big sign on their heads saying "HEY CC AND KILL ME PLEASE". All that, on top of the fact that, as you yourself note, these abilities have the potential to be very powerful, means that there's already plenty of incentive to play smart with them. And anyway, unfair compared with what? A non-chanelled spell that gets all its damage guaranteed provided it lands?

Plus, it'd be a bit of a kick in the balls to low-level players. If this change were brought in, it would amount to a nerf to every champion affected by it, since no matter how could you are, opportunities to get a full channel off are pretty few are far between. So either you'd have to be okay with that (and I don't see why you would be, since many of the champions with spells like this are already considered fairly risky picks at high levels precisely because they have to work so hard to reach their full potential), or you'd have to buff them to compensate, whether you buffed the overall damage of the spells themselves or buffed some other part of their kits. But of course, at lower levels where 'interrupt the ulting Katarina' is not something everyone's quite on board with yet, these champions are already usually considered borderline OP, if not outright OP. Making them stronger would only worsen that.