Talk:Kassadin/@comment-8468980-20150313045027/@comment-8468980-20150316002551

yorick was OP for a season then got outclassed by other champs. Riot never buffed him in anyway to allow him to return to top as a viable choice, allow him to jungle competitively, or work as a support.

Diana was very strong at release and was a top pick for a while (probably not the strongest release, Vlad, Sona, MF, Xin, Vayne, Graves and several alpha 40 champs were nuts on release). Then she got nerfed into oblivion and put into mothballs.

Ashe was once Ban/Pick/Lose status during pre season one, but quickly became a lower viability ADC once people began spamming Twitch.

My point isn't that these guys and other were never popular rather that Riot is ok with some champions being unviable for multiple seasons while some champions take a small dip in viability and then all of the sudden need more patch attention despite getting tons already over the course of multiple seasons. ie If they're ok with letting Yorick never see the light of day again, why is it impossible to just nerf Nid, Kass, Thresh definitively instead of all these trade offs that keep them broke? Why isn't the treatment equal?

Tbh, it could be a paradigm shift. Riot could have been ok with just nerfing the shit out of champs during S1-S2, but shifted to trying to maintain viability through reworks in S3.