User blog comment:Hidden Sniper/Riot's hand in the meta as we know it/@comment-89.235.54.172-20120925183507/@comment-88.166.130.183-20120925195917

If they release under powered champions it's sure to have bad sells at release at least, but it affects a lot more things then just sells.

Look at balancing, it's easier to use the popularity of strong champions to balance them, because there is a lot more data to work with than champion with obvious problems (and have less information), wich you can't buff randomly because it can easaly create more problems than resolved ones.