User blog comment:Deshiba/No counterplay/@comment-6061249-20140516181921

Vi, the most broken champion? You guys sure you aren't going too far with this all?

Currently the most broken one i'd say is Yasuo. Certainly, while without any allied knockup, he's quite hard to play and heck even would need a buff. But when you add an allied knockup to the team, he becomes one of easiest facerollers ever able to do a permament CC lockdown just by pressing 1 button and then eat enemies.

Going to the topic of the post, hmm... rito gems' balance methods are hanging randomly between really good to complete, pardon, shit.

Some things that get removed without being removed from other champions/items/anything are so, because of their synergy with other bonuses coming from the same source. Skarner's permament slow was stronger than Ashe's one mostly because of following reasons:

1 - AoE <-- exactly this propably made the deal i think

2 - Adds up some damage besides of the slow

3 - Skarner was less accessible to kill while permaslowing than Ashe, even if she's ranged - basically because who would kill a tank first?

4 - Synergy with rest of the kit.

About Nidalee, i'd guess it's all because she has less range and cannot, pardon me again, give no fucks about walls that easily. She should just gets her spears improved (reduced hitbox to show real width of the spear and add some speed to make it possible to hit) and then it's k.