User blog comment:HeresyHorus/Syndra, a tale of a lost potential/@comment-12314620-20131031205306

After rereading your post I actually started paying attention on how much you keep going about "difficulty rating". The "difficulty" bar on champion pages are aimed towards newer players who still lack much in terms of understanding champion mechanics and are to give direction, in reality they really don't have that much to do with how "difficult" a champion is to play to great efficiency in the hands of a skilled player. For example look Zilean, difficulty 4, although he's not popular, he can be extremely powerful in right hands and he is definitely much more difficult to master than many champions with much higher difficulty rating (akali difficulty 6, lux difficulty 6, Brand 6, your "cheap" Zed 9 (much higher skill ceiling than most champions), Fizz 8...), the same applies to a huge amount of champions...