Originally Posted by MuffinLung

I suppose you're right. I think the main problem with cleanse is that it makes the game a bit too easy in some situations. "I'll gank ashe or morg any day, I'll just cleanse their ults when or if they use it on me. And if they don't use it on me, I'll still have my cleanse ready!". I think to make it more balanced and "skillful", Cleanse should grant a whatever-second immunity to snares/stuns/slows/debuffs, but it shouldn't REMOVE them from you. That way, you would have to be much more careful and anticipate and predict more often. Did you see Ashe fire her arrow? activate cleanse to be immune to it before it hits. Getting ready to gank Ryze and don't want to be snared? Activate Cleanse for the 3-second immunity just before heading in.

When a Melee hero gets exhausted, he just has to run and wait it out before he can hit again. If I have my Cleanse active, Ashe would just have to wait it out before my immunity wears of and THEN use her arrow.
You hear of people commenting on "nice flash getaway", or "healed us just in time, nice". When someone cleanses, it's just "ooh ffs". But with this new idea of a cleanse, it would be regarded as more skillful and wellplayed.

Originally Posted by Lemongod

I think nerfing cleanse would just make the game even more centered around heals, since as of now cleanse/flash are the only things that really give carries any survivability unless they go out of their way to build tanky items. And flash is being removed, so cleanse is really the main way for carries to stay useful/alive during a team fight, since they will inevitably be the target of all CC.
Personally, I think it's just a matter of paying attention to who has cleanse and whether it's on CD or not. If you're playing Malzahar and you know Ashe has cleanse but you haven't seen her use it recently, then don't blow your ult on her. Wait until you see her waste it on a more spammable CC, then go in and ult her. Yeah, that means you need to pay attention or talk to your teammates, but I don't think it's too hard.

Originally Posted by stuffed

Frost Shot level 5 slows you by 38%.

Ghost with Haste increases your Movement Speed by 32% + 8%.

From my point of view it's not the job for cleanse to counter short CD CCs, you might rather use ghost+haste for this.

And this should also be the reason why most carries take cleanse+ghost. With that they are able to get away from these 2 forms of CCs.