Talk:VPBE/@comment-8225465-20130416123343/@comment-5877442-20130424155825

Completely invalidate...

You can still zone apply pressure, push etc. They only get those pots cos you're having a bad time, any champ and any player can still have the advantages they worked for.

Sure 5 pots is a lot and in 90% of situations you won't need more than that. However, you will sometimes find yourself in situations where you haven't go a flying fuck of a hope left in lane. You've been completely reverse snowballed (Nasus v Riven or something) and your jungler has to gank other lanes too. You must hold on and not give up. You wanna stay in lane as long as possible to try and catch up to them. As I mentioned in my other post, I would have to go back to base literally every 2 mins to heal up again. Riven also doesn't need anything to harass apart from cooldowns so she doesn't give a fuck about harassing-she just does it to exert more pressure. Health pots take FIFTEEN SECONDS to heal 1.5 BARS OF HEALTH. That's 2 Riven AAs.

What I do understand and agree with is how annoyed you might feel as the winning player, having just chuncked them half their health and then they can heal it up straight away. Well first of all, it takes them at least a minute to heal it all and that is plenty of time for some aggressive/jungler action. You will still have the advantage and them having to use lots of potions lowers their morale anyway. This makes them even easier to zone. You do have something to fight for-minions. Which is exactly why you need those pots.

The only other argument is-"Since you've earned such a massive lead, you should get to keep it."

I can kinda understand this and I guess it's right but they can't snowball so far that it's an instant win; you need pots.