User blog comment:Ozuar/The 9 Health Potion Argument/@comment-4881935-20130423063413

Counter arguments to your arguments in retaining the potion system:


 * 1) The champions that are excelling in these 9 health potions meta are those not with bad early phases, like, , , , and . So the counter-argument overall to your statement is basically, this doesn't really help the bad early lane champions any better than any other champions.
 * 2) The managing mana is actually part of the issue of the 9 health potion meta. Many champion with mana are being forced into a horrible corner as they normally don't have enough mana to harasses someone out the lane with 9 health potion. Saying they have to manage it more is actual a worst situation as it just really pushes them to be more passive against a non-mana champion, which in turn, just makes the early lanning phase dominated by non-mana champions. Secondly, how the heck is that even fair. Forcing the champions that actually have to manage something early game to manage it more while the ones who don't have to manage anything gets the benefits.
 * 3) For your last bit, I don't have anything to say against that much besides, their kit already does try to help reduce this issue. It could be better, but it's not the worst. Most of these champions managed to become FotM even without the 9 health potion so it's not like they 'require' the 9 health potion to fuction.