Talk:Ezreal/@comment-94.15.18.227-20120830201524/@comment-2124153-20120830205840

My feel of what they are doing, is to make sure that no one champion excels at everything. This is the mistake that they made with release Xin, and with Irelia (which they are still paying for to this day).

Abyssal is being nerfed because it's far and away the best item for an AP mage, which is constricting item choice. Ezreal's W is being nerfed because you can't have one skill be the best for damage AND harass on Ezreal without removing counterplay, never mind the fact that they are un-doing the ill-advised change to its radius that made the effect wider than the particle. Corki is too safe for his damage output, so they boost the CD on his escape. He can harass too easily with missiles, but the balance is right for fights, so they increase the CD but keep the cap the same. Etc.

I don't want a game where a champion has no counterplay in lane. This means nerfs the sort of which you are seeing these days, to make sure that nobody is King of the Hill. They do this with buffs, too. Remember when they buffed Ashe's bases, because power creep on other carries had gotten to the point where she was no longer viable? This is absurd when you think about it, since Ashe used to be the best carry in the game two years ago, and she fall off the face of the earth with nothing changing at all.