Talk:Barrier/@comment-68.8.222.209-20120720053914/@comment-58.106.253.171-20121016070049

Ignite is still a major gamebreaker. It's the 2nd most picked skill in the entire metagame right now. Only reason it is 2nd is cos Flash is useful for any roles. If it isn't for flash, it would be the most used. Think about it, there aren't many champs who can dish out true damage to begin with, it cuts your HP regen right in half and can act as a finisher early to late game.

If you think about nearly every other summoner spell, most of them have counters for one another or dont have counters cos they don't influence the battle itself. Heal is countered by Ignite, Flash is countered by Flash and occassionally ghost, Surge is countered by Exhaust, and so on.

Even if Cleanse removes the damage portion of Ignite, it doesn't repeal the Regen stauncher. Ignite really needs a hard counter. And I can safely say that Barrier is one of those hard counters. But if barrier was to be added in Classic and Dominion, I guess even that will become a gamebreaker too. :P