Brand nerf is just plain unfair

Straight to the point. 's been offset and in a "meh" spot for a long time due to the likes of other mages outperforming him e.g. Azirs and Viktors being FOTM during season 5 and now that major changes to the mastery system including have been introduced suddenly people started QQing and complaining about OPness. Noone asked for DFT and noone asked it synergising so well on DoT mages. It would be logical to nerf the mastery itself rather than the champion on whom it fits so well. Nonetheless, Riot thought that'd be a good idea to nerf BOTH parties. And now 's Pillar of Flame is getting its mana cost increased which already had a high mana cost whatsoever, with the reason "it can be spammed too much": any Brand main will prove you wrong, if you spam this stuff in lane like a sicko you will get OOM sooner than a with laser spamming intensifies. Moreover, Brand's never been OP or broken or easy etc. he always had a decent winrate before the changes: ~51-53%, which can't be said about his pickrate (i remember it was somewhere 2.5 - 3 % ) which implies that he's been played exclusively by mains/people who knew how to abuse his strengths, but even then he needed actual QoL buffs and what is coming now after all these years of other mages overshadowing him? A nerf? And something tells me it won't get reversed no matter what happens to DFT itself. While you might think that 20 mana increase is not that big of a nerf, it will be quite painful to 's laning phase and how he manages to maintain lane presense. The increase in mana cost is absolutely unnecessary. I even don't think the slight buff in the face of will compensate.

TL:DR hit the mastery, not the champion