User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/My second attempt at balancing (hopefully better this time) + skin ideas/@comment-24036535-20140811115428

Ok, the LB problem you were talking about? You know why they killed her silence? Same reason as taking out Kassadin's, there was a super bursty assassin who could instakill a target, who also had a decent silence duration. This prevented any kind of counterplay at all, which you seemed to think was wrong. You disliked that the target could flash away or even fight back, but that makes the game balanced, healthy games will always have a "play", "counterplay", then skill based "counterplay" and skill based "counter-counterplay". A silence on an assassin removes any hope of counterplay at all, just "play" and then "death". Talon can barely get away with his, seeing as its the second shortest in the game.