User blog comment:Just one lol player/TONS OF CONCEPT ITEMS/@comment-1330314-20131230161856/@comment-1330314-20131231095904

No silence ever lasts as long as 5 seconds, and the hardest form of crowd control you can get through an item is a slow, precisely because other forms of crowd control can be chained together to shut down an enemy for excessive amounts of time. The other problem is that you're specifically silencing their ultimate, which is arguably worse than silencing every ability at once in terms of enjoyment.