User blog comment:Elphrihaim/Clarivoyance...?/@comment-9048637-20130806162226/@comment-6061249-20130809080831

I said it already twice, and i'll say that again. Flash is strong spell. Yes. It is "let me show how all your plans are nothing". I won't even deny that i've encountered situations when i was about to say "goddamn thing". The thing i want to say is that it's still 400 range and 5 minutes of cooldown - it's not OP. It's a single trick that can be predicted. Yes, i've played in jungle because it's simply my main position. I'm not playing in competitive tier and i'm quite far from it, but also i'm not in low difficulty tier. I'm playing with silver/gold people, sometimes i match up with a team made out of platinum players and we go premade. While i'm silver. Silver, because i'm playing rankeds very rarely. My current win ratio at ranked games is something like 65%, and i'd pass silver already if i would give some time for playing, more than 3-4 games per week. Of course, we can now talk about silver being low difficulty tier and i'm just playing against noobs, but what about wrecking platinum players to dust? Is platinum low difficulty tier too?

Maybe it's just my playstyle that i can handle flashers quite often. I've seen very random kinds of Flash usage. I take it mostly for laning and jungling because it's a thing that actually makes fighting against gapcloser using champion possible. This is the reason why it's impossible to remove Flash. Without Flash, League would become fullfilled with gapcloser champions, making them kings of the game. Imagine how hard is it to get a proper position as Galio in teamfight without using Flash. Same goes for Janna, Amumu (he can do well with Bandage Toss though) and some others. Imagine a moment when Ezreal becomes unbeatable for Ashe because he can just shift out and Ashe can't do a single thing against it (maybe casting ultimate that is quite easy to dodge when you know it's about to be done). And don't tell me that "Ashe can take Ghost or slow Ezreal down" because i just heard that it's not enough or not possible to do since "he is out of range already".

Not to mention how powerful as hell would junglers become. Imagine an almost sure kill every time when you gank. Oh wait, it's not almost sure, since Riven can just quadrajump out. But Darius can't. Nasus also can't. Slowing somebody down is not enough since you already got CC'd and second enemy is still moving towards you. "Nasus can use Ghost" And enemy can also use it, doing same thing as countering Flash with Flash. Neverending story.

My only idea against it is to make Flash not instant-cast. The problem is, how to do that and how easy would it be to counter.

The true problem is community. People just take Ignite + Flash whenever they go top/mid and Barrier + Flash as ADC. Instead of thinking for yourself and actually trying to counterspell. My thoughts are simple - Flash + Ignite is best stuff while you're on midlane. Two spells that can help with bursting the most important target. This is, in my opinion, only moment when Ignite + Flash should be taken (with exception for countering high regen + CC champions such as Volibear or Mundo). While i'm going top, i'm used to Exhaust + Flash, since Exhaust gives me time to hit the enemy a bit, while being safe from ~ 75% - 35% of damage the opponent would do without being Exhausted. Depending on champion i can switch Flash to Ghost (Nasus, for example quite enjoys 10 seconds of increased mobility instead of single gap closement). And trust me, enemies can escape it VERY rarely. Though, flashing over walls (saying it for 3rd time) makes quite a mess unless you have your own Flash or gapcloser ability that is able to pass over walls.

Simply by maths how is it possible to beat Ghost that gives you ~120 bonus range per second and Exhaust that reduces the gap by 50% of enemy's movement speed each second with Flash that has 400 range? Why am i supposed to care about Flash + *any champion's gapcloser ability* combo when it's not Flash's fault and the champion's ability truly extends the gap? Believe or not, Flash has to be used with good thinking or else it's just a waste of summoner spell slot.

I'm going now to make a post about Flash effectiveness.

By the goddamn way, how is it possible then that people actually can do well without Flash?