User blog comment:Leyrann/Tha'vor, the Blade of the Void/@comment-9558107-20130514200735/@comment-4834593-20130514202012

I don't think it's that much of a problem. Olaf and Alistar have cc removal, but Olaf has IMMUNITY for 6 seconds, while Tha'vor can immediately be cced again, and Alistar has a freaking SEVENTY percent damage reduction on anything that hits him.

Of course, you can take Cleanse, but doesn't that mean you lose your inner top turret at minute 10 because you have close to 0 scalings on your abilities and are item depenedant like hell? You will NEED something like Exhaust to stay alive.

And the dash is barely worth the name dash. Have you ever played Riven? If yes, then you should know how hard it is to catch up to someone with her, despite the amount of 4 dashes SOUNDING really high. Now, imagine you can only dash if you can target someone. That's about what you'll get.

And let's take a random team. I'm just going to take the first viable champion of the list for every lane. Ahri for mid. Akali for top. Alistar for support. Amumu for jungle. Ashe for support. That's 6 hard ccs, where two of them are unremovable by ANY means, while this team still has quite some decent damage. To be honest, I don't think he'd be able to do ANYTHING against such a team. First you need to ult to get rid of that amumu ult, then you need to dash to someone squishy, then you get knocked away by Alistar, and IF you manage to catch up again, then you need to ult through either a Charm and stay close to someone with 3 long range dashes, together covering the longest range of ALL dashes in this game, or you need to ult away and Ashe ult and hope she doesn't slow you too heavily while getting away.

Only one over 300 range gapcloser on a melee AD carry is actually quite weak, I think, mostly if it's a skillshot that only closes the gap if you hit someone. Mostly if the enemy team has a knockback. And there are 9 champions with knockbacks in the game. Notice that I am not counting pulls, flings and knockups here. That would make the total amount about 30-40, I think. Nearly every team will have at least one.

Oh yeah, and AoE slowing fields are quite deadly for Tha'vor too. It get's reapplied all the time, so you can't remove it.