Talk:VPBE/@comment-1138914-20140604141508/@comment-3974211-20140604173353

The nerf to Crystal Slash was to balance out the extra damage coming from his innate.

Kennen, Annie, Braum and sort-of Nautilus all have stun-themed passives - they are all different roles in fights, and their passives are all executed differently. Braum doesn't have an insanely low cooldown, AOE ability that applies stacks - Crystal Slash can apply Crystal Poison to 5 enemies at once; Kennen's detonates itself; Annie's is applied per-ability not per-target, so if she misses someone initially there's no recovery.

His ultimate removes the stacks so that he cannot stun someone immediately after suppressing them - it's the same reason Yasuo's Last Breath resets his Steel Tempest chain, so he can't just knock someone up immediately after they were just knocked up.

The nerf to his Fracture came completely out of the blue, and I imagine they might revert some of the damage - but, if I'm honest, the reason they nerfed it was because people were ranking it over Crystal Slash. Riot wants Crystal Slash ranked first.