User blog comment:TehAnonymous/TehAnonymous AMA/@comment-6061249-20150120124211/@comment-1990160-20150120131224

Honestly, I'm a bit of a conservative. Bring me back to the good ol' days of League, where every second champion didn't have a knockup, ADCs were still called ADCs, and we didn't have any of these new-fangled gadgets to play with. Blade of the Ruined King? In my day, you built IE and PD and by golly you enjoyed it.

I don't like the general trend of the game in terms of power creep. Mobility creep, knockup creep, and resource creep. One of my favorite champions for a long time is Lux. She's got range, damage, utility, etc. Problems are that she's got rough mana issues, and her damage is pretty low if you itemize into an Athene's first item. If she misses her Q, she has no escape (and even if you do, they can still come after you)

Compare to Yasuo: AoE knockup, dashing around for days, free passive shield, combos with a ton of champions, is only gated by cooldowns (no mana/resource to worry about), has a very linear optimal build path. Several of these things also apply to Riven~