User blog comment:Deshiba/No counterplay/@comment-1330314-20140515231813/@comment-4022742-20140519125918

I assure you, I'm not seeing you as an adversary at all. I just quoted you to point out that what you wrote down might not have matched what you wanted to convey. It seemed odd to me that such an eloquent and intelligent fellow such as yourself would claim that the nerfs/reworks to fighters are being released simultaneous, while the update history proves otherwise.

And yes I use the term broken quite loosely. But when I see it gives so many free stats and debuffs from one skill that it can't be fixed with a numbers tweak. It would need to get spread out over other skills and get scaling so you'd have to spread your points early. And even then there would probably be some stats that should be removed. When you can't fix it with numbers then it's broken, that's the statement I really believe in.

And that brings me back to the unstoppable mechanic. Could these ultimate abilities be balanced with numbers? To a point, yes. Nerfing damage, range or cc duration numbers COULD make it feel more fair for them to not have any counter play. But how far can you take that without making the ability itself feel useless. I myself would prefer if it wasn't a part of the game, because it would make all these champions more interesting and it would allow for a bit more power in the rest of their kits... (excluding Vi, who really needs to get fixed)

As for Warwick as he is now, assuming the currently popular build on him, his life gain will be +52 per attack, so right now just buying  on Vi is enough to out-heal and damage Warwick. Especially when taking into account denting blows which will give here a burst every 3 attacks that fives more health over her life steal. As for the upcoming Warwick (assuming he makes the cut as is without tweaks), well his passive is way more troublesome... You'd need Feral Flare and 1000 HP to have the same health back, after that it'll heal for more. His damage would be better beefy tanks then against Carries. It's a bit abusive, and I feel like WW could do without Hamstring's cc, knowing his ult would be harder to hit. But let's wait and see how PBE testing and revisions go before actually giving a judgement on that.

Well, it would all hinge on what the champions in question would get in return... If you take away the reliability of their ults, you would leave room to make other things stronger, so they could have different means of engaging while still needing to carefully choose and judge their ultimate openings. I do agree that it might be more work then it's worth, but I feel these champions deserve to be as interesting as they can, as opposed to the yawn point and click ults they have now. (personal opinion)