[X champ]'s abilities are justified because they can be countered with an item.

This is always a bad approach to balancing the game. Not because the result isn't balanced, but because it's just a shitty gameplay pattern. It isn't fun for either half of the equation. The person who has to buy a specific item to counter one solitary champion feels like he's being taxed. The person who gets completely countered by that item feels like they went from godlike to useless.

This is the same kind of BS they used to say about the OLD Eve (a lot of you probably won't even remember this, but some may). It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.

Yeah, I'm talking about Zed. You probably figured that out.