User blog comment:Xyclone010/What's the matter with CC?/@comment-5035765-20140929023204/@comment-4022742-20140930062635

Of the champions you mentioned only Garen and Fiddlesticks are unable to miss their silences. The rest are skill shots or AoE effects. And I do think they should make Fiddlesticks his silence a directional skill shot that can only hit champions and resumes the normal functionality (the bounce effect) after you've hit a champion.

Now I'm all for slows, but this is kind of counter productive to your argument. Seeing as it completely invalidates similar champions like, , , , , , and the like. Some of these don't have CC attached to their gap closer like but don't get a secondary form of CC either. Heck some don't even get a gap closer with cc at all. In his case they could just as easily have gone for a movement speed buff as a slow.
 * "Aatrox has a slow because he's melee, and thus needs some way to stick to the opponent for more than a second..."

That being said, the slow fits Aatrox his design better, and the blades of torment just look cool :3