User blog comment:Ozuar/The 9 Health Potion Argument/@comment-5196742-20130424015100/@comment-7996065-20130425184451

The reason people play 9 potions is because some lanes just feel unwinnable.

If you removed that, people wouldn't need to buy 9 potions.

But instead of removing the root cause, lets remove the consequence and ignore the cause until it pops up again. Trust me, I started doing this at least a year back whenever I met a counter. Also, Crystalline Flask is useless because it costs too much. They nerfed it too hard last time (which is what they always do when they are "in a panic" about balance, which they always are).