User blog comment:Leyrann/Why Chalice of Harmony is OP/@comment-4881935-20120827164833/@comment-4834593-20120828065919

"if they play properly". You said it yourself. The cost that Energy champions have on all their abilities total, is larger than their pool. Or as large as their pool. Only by playing properly (Shen hitting Shadow Dash and using Vorpal Blade, Kennen stunning and moving through units in E, Lee Sin autoattacking after each ability, Akali triggering the mark from Q) they can keep using abilities.

As I said about the Riven vs Yorick lane, he was only winning because of his mana. As soon as he had none, I killed him, because he couldn't defend himself. If he would not spam, I would've been harrasing him all the time, forcing him to attack back, and lose mana on it. Where I lost nothing. If you have a mana champion, and you can't kill a manaless champion before you were oom, you got a problem if that manaless champion knows anything about the game. This last thing might be a problem to many, even up to a somewhat higher ELO of about 1500, I guess, but it's not for me, because I'm just ten times better in the theory (go in when mana champion is oom, otherwise defend myself) than in the game itself (which is why I play against players that don't think of going in as soon as I am oom with champions like Malphite or Jax). And you said I lost that lane vs Yorick. That is not true. We had equal farm, which means we had equal gold. When he went oom, I could kill him (IIRC, I got 2 kills and an assist vs him, and he nothing), that was more than enough to close the small gold gap between me and him. I think, if you transfer a kill to 20 cs and an assist to 12, I'd have outfarmed him by about 35-40. He wouldn't be further than 15 cs in front of me, or I'd have remembered. It was the sort of game you remember.

So in short, I tower hugged and healed myself up with pots and my Vampiric Scepter (and of course that shield <3) when he had mana, I killed him when he had no mana. If he would have spammed less, I would have harrassed more, in the end leaving him the choice between dying and spamming. I think, for him, the only way to kill me would have been to let me push to his tower, then go all in. Though I might of course have escaped that cuz of my dashes... Don't know if he could have, tbh. A competent Riven (and I dare call myself a competent Riven) is nearly impossible to kill. I once facechecked a bush with four (or five, not sure) enemies. My only defence was Merc Threads and a Guardian Angel. I survived it.