User blog comment:Emptylord/Custom Champion - Dannis the Headcracker/@comment-6292556-20150501173330/@comment-1330314-20150501175936

Ground-targeted abilities and AoE damage damage flattened enemies normally. The flattening effect mainly impacts on skillshots, along with some dashes (e.g. ). While misusing it would obviously negatively impact a teamfight, flattening the front line has its advantages, mainly for Dannis, who could attack the back line, but also for champions like, or , who would also have much better access to squishies at the back. In general, flattening the enemy front line would allow your team to literally walk over them, and so would create an opening in a team that's playing very defensively.