User blog comment:Muffintehbrony/Unseen 'unviable' champs/@comment-9463023-20140325124659

I can only wage in on the champions from that list that I do play: 1. Poppy - she got nerfed extremely hard so that she wouldn't be brokenly op - right now her passive is extremely strong, so is her ultimate, and her Q does insane damage, she has mana management issues and no farming/waveclearing skills though and it cripples her early game. Riot doesn't know what to do with her because any buffs would make her too strong and any changes to her kit would completely change they way she's played and the 'essence' of Poppy.   2. Graves - he used to be one of the top adc's, hence he was constantly being nerfed. Right now he is just outperformed by the likes of Lucian, whose basic three skill combo deals about the same amount of damage as Graveses full combo with ultimate but has lower mana cost and half the cooldowns. He is getting buffed for the first time since release soon, that might bring him back.   3. Viktor - this season Riot has been doing everything to make matches more lategame oriented, they strenghten turrets to prevent lane swaps, they nerf early first bloods, nerf strong early game champions and giving them some lategame power instead - on average, the games are much longer now than they were last season. And how is Viktor supposed to function well when one of his item slots is occupied by an item that scales poorly into lategame...?   4. Zilean - he is pretty fun to play and his ultimate can be gamechanging but on lane he has no sustain, no hard cc so is outperformed by most supports. He is not the kind to build damage and burst down people lategame, not the kind to build defense and tank everything and not the kind to cc the whole enemy team. Sadly, other champions are just better...