User blog comment:Mineko Charat Lucky/I propose that Flash should really be reworked/@comment-4636093-20130809113300/@comment-5556439-20130810081014

'" No Flash on your team basically means you are throwing your game, especially higher-leveled games." '

Sorry, this is just not true at all. You can win a match, without flash. I promise.

" You have basically forgotten about the penalty this item imposes on spam-happy champions" 

No I havent forgotten. I know the waste this item becomes if you buy it on someone like Ezreal when your maxing CDR or something. Its still pointless though. You would have to code this thing to be incredibly sensitive to each and every champions own gapclosing that its just not worth it. There would be almost too many interactions involving it and due to its now FORCED situational behavior, it loses its identity, and just becomes a random item in the store. This is ANOTHER thing Riot complains about. Identity. An example would be Ohmwrecker, its really powerfull, but its mechanic of stopping a turret momentarily is useless by the time of the match you buy it, so its never purchased. Its identity is over-shadowed by its active which, while powerful, degrades the rest of the items GOOD stats by making it less efficient. The amount of psudo-nerfing that would go into this item would cause it to become similar to Ohmwrecker and Banner of Command. The mechanics that make it good, also degrade it and make it bad.