Flash has almost 100% pick rate but havent received any changes for years
nerfs when?
was nerfed for having over 10% pick rate, but league of flash is completely fine.
Rito favoritism at finest.
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Who said flash had a 100% pick rate?
facts
...not the dumbest thread I've ever seen, but still. Is flash being popular making the game unfun? seriously this is the topic you want to rally against?
Pretty sure ghost was nerfed for more or less giving mid laners gank immunity (which in turn made it popular), not because it was popular.
Flash has a much longer cooldown and more diverse plays that result from it, so it's not deemed an issue by riot.
There's really only one nerf they can give to flash - a longer cooldown. Which they've already done, it has a huge cooldown.
Flash and TP are both at 300sec cooldowns. Heal is at 240, then Exhaust and Cleanse at 210.
TP was a shorter cooldown if used on a turret (200 sec instead of 300) and eventually became mandatory for top lane and popular in mid lane, so it was nerfed to always be 300sec cooldown (although still 200sec if canceled).
Admittedly, that's still favoritism (why shouldn't TP have a shorter cooldown than Flash?) but I think putting flash on anything more than a 5min cooldown just makes it available too infrequently that you don't get to see plays with it. While almost all champions use flash, there are some champions that are precariously balanced around flash and depend almost entirely on it to succeed. Annie for example is only useful in high level play due to her flash-Tibbers combo. If flash was on a sufficiently long cooldown to make it not as popular, Annie would become almost completely unplayable as she'd only get to flash-Tibbers twice in a typical game.
The game is basically dependent on flash at this point. Finding something that works better is obviously possible and can be used well because people don't expect it. So take advantage of that, because you're going to struggle to convince Riot to get rid of Flash or nerf it to a long enough cooldown that other summoners are chosen more often.