User blog comment:ClariS/A Moment for Clarity/@comment-5556439-20130417220524

The most useless someoner spell in my opinion is Revive but w/e, its just an opinion. I think Clarity is far from useless, with champions such as Veigar who use a particular spell over and over with little to no change, they need this spell. Why? well, champs such as Veigar who can 100-0 you without ignite, have no need for gap cloers or utility, they just poke you and kill you once your low enough. Clarity is good for this, as it allows him to casualy farm his Q, bait you into thinking Clarity is on CD, and then popping Clarity, while your low and unexpectingly killing you with a Q/R combo. Although I agree Clarity is a niche spell, it has uses, albeit limited it has its uses.

I have used Clarity many times in mid to bait an enemy into tihnking Im OOM, and then proceeding to kill them with the help from my jungler, although you have to get your mana very very low. Usually because, who stays in lane with under 200 mana early game unless they dont need it? Especially in mid. "He would have bound to have used it by now, theres no reason for him to be that low on mana and stay." Its a good bait mechanic, trust me.