Thought Experiment: If we remove Flash in preseason, what would happen?

And what changes would probably be made?

Flash has been pretty much the constant most overpowered thing since the dawn of league. I cannot remember a single time when it was not the "best choice" to pick it, apart from a few very specific champs and even the the alternatives were barely better than just rolling out with flash in your pocket.

So from what I have seen on the boards there were two concerns:

1.) Immobile champs becoming trash because they become even more immobile.

Now that is something that can be fixed easily. Most champs need only a few buffs, and some are completly outdated anyways and are in dire need of a rework. Let's look at the "big rework pipeline": Poppy, Taric soon, Galio is also in need of one I guess, same thing with Yorick (At least I hope they remember Yorick Mori... it has been years...). Their reworks can solve their specific problems, so that's not a problem either.

2.) (Immobile) Junglers being unable to wall-jump

This is something I have seen in another thread and it made some sense:

So, Dragon and Baron are both extremly important objectives that make and break games, and we all know that feel as a jungler when you just flash over and steal it - or at least engage hard on them so they can't take it.

"But Udyr never needed it", you might say now, but that fucker is moving at mach 5 anyways.

But how do we fix this? Simple: . Just change the passive for smite on this one: smite can now be selfcast and allows seeing+walking through one wall while giving a short movement boost (nowhere near ghost speed, just a slight speed up). Perfect for counterjungling. And suddenly that item has its unique, viable niche while still being not stronger as the other jungle items (that bring either some serious combat advantage to the field or a lot of clear+sustain power)

Apart from these two point I would see no problems with flash being removed. Seriously, it might be the best thing that could happen to the game actully. You want the game to feel fresh and new? Take out the one thing that is dominating 99% of all matches. Simple as that.

You guys always complain about mobility creep. And now when we could just lower the entire level of moblity in the game you complain for some reason.

On a side note: we might as well introduce some new summoner spells, as clarity and clearvoyance are probably getting kicked out of the game next preseason. I'm for one that is is an instant , AOE knockback from the caster (no damage). Like this squishies don't have to cling to their heal on botlane or barrier in mid (mages in that case) and it might be even viable on tanks. Not sure why I like this idea so much.... maybe I just hate kata mains, who knows?