Talk:VPBE/@comment-24035110-20140610212731/@comment-1330314-20140611232237

That particular announcement was bound to happen at some point. Even before Riot started taking a hard stance against perma-slows, the item was causing enough problems for it to be shuffled towards unviability with a cumbersome build path. Unlike, Mallet doesn't really have any interaction to its passive other than landing an autoattack, despite it providing massive amounts of power. Since it technically allows any champion in the game to have a perma-slow, it's likely going to be the next biggest source of it to take a hit.