Board Thread:League of Legends discussion/@comment-9053777-20150703221340

So I heard that there's a possibility of Cho' Gath losing the silence on his Feral Scream and I was like, 'Riot, stahp!' Ever since Kassadin lost his silence, is seems like they've been on a campaign to do away with silences completely. Some champions losing their silences (i.e. LeBlanc and Kass) I can understand, as their kits give them insane mobility, damage, CC, or all the above. But crippling or outright removing every silence in the game is way too far.

The entire problem with silences before wasn't that they existed, but that the strongest silences were on champions that already had huge advantages in their kit (3 sec on LeBlanc with Q & R, 2.5 on Kassadin). But now it seems like Riot is scared to have any sort of silences in the game. I firmly believe that silences can be healthy in the game if put onto the right champions and are adjusted properly (make the cap silence duration no more than 2 sec, chiefly) for the amount of power that the champion has. Hell, even assassins can have silences as long as they remain balanced (Which is why I thought that a 1 sec silence on Talon was fair, as it was tied to his gap-closer & short enough to attempt to escape).

So can silences be healthy in League, or should they all just be gone? 