Talk:Vi/@comment-26433263-20150803234855/@comment-9705522-20150818123225

Yeah, thats from the blogpost of her designer. Who was a completely new, and inexperienced guy. Vi was his first project (and it does show). That blog post doesnt say what Riot thinks, it says what Vis designer thinks. Which is his bias and inexperience speaking.

However, Riot released another blog post about a week later. That blogpost quite extensively talked about counterplay, and how it is really important to have it (which made the situation both funny and sad). And that was a blogpost from the perspective of their big designers, iirc. Morello, ezreal, all of em. They dont think lack of counterplay is good, they think its bad.

They dont think Vis ult is healthy (in fact, several Rioters at different times have expressed that Vis ult is really unhealthy and that they would like to change it). Hence why they tried several times with small changes to give it counterplay. Which didnt really work, but you get the idea.

Now, the question is, why dont they just scrap it and make a new, actually decently designed one? Same reason they didnt change Lee. When Vi causes problems, she is popular. When she is popular, backlash is high. And you dont want backlash. Thats why the first Lee Sin changes didnt go through. But eventually, Vi will become popular again, and more and more people will demand changes. And at some point, Riot will have to do those changes, like they did with Lee.