User blog comment:Xyclone010/What's the matter with CC?/@comment-5035765-20140929023204

okay, the thing with silence...

lets look at who still has them, shall we?

Blitzcrank , Cho'Gath , Fiddlesticks , Garen , Malzahar , Soraka

2 supports (the Robot and the Goat), 2 tanks (Cho and Gurren), 2 DoT mages (Fiddledicks and Malzy)

every single one of them usually lacks the burst damage to kill an opponent on their own before the silence wears off, barring some extenuating circumstances.

lets look at who USED TO have silences

Leblanc, Kassadin , Talon , Heimerdinger

oh hey would you look at that... three champions who are so bursty that they can kill an opponent before the silence runs out, and then there's Heimerdinger, who went from being very DoT oriented, to the point of being very weak against non-braindead foes, to having a good amount of burst via turret lasers and his rockets.

i think someone down there below me said something to the effect that silences are fine as long as they don't have killing power in a combo after it, and that's basically the problem.

... oh, and Aatrox has a slow because he's melee, and thus needs some way to stick to the opponent for more than a second before they just walk away