Talk:Ashe/@comment-4834593-20141030061056/@comment-1330314-20141101041922

Toxic may not have been the best term to use, seeing how the term got abused in the past, but I think that applies to perma-slows: as PrimusMobileVzla explained, perma-slows tend to screw over really hard any champion who can't just blow a gapcloser, since it denies them a lot of options while also giving them no opportunities to break from the slow. As NeonSpotlight mentioned, Ashe was one of the motors behind the League of Gapclosers, and if she became more popular today she'd harm the viability of a lot of other champions.

While Ashe's perma-slow is technically not that much of a problem now, since most champions can dash out of it, it's still an issue holding her down. She deserves to be a more popular pick, and having a utility/CC-centric marksman could open up a whole lot of interesting comps and strategies, but can't with the exact kit she has now. The larger problem, though, is that Frost Shot, while unhealthy, is also iconic and beloved among her fans: reworking her would force her to lose her perma-slow, but would also enrage her large veteran fanbase. It's sort of the same problem as with Lee Sin: he needs to change and become less overloaded, but doing so will inevitably make a lot of people extremely unhappy.