So, what will we build now to rush 40% CDR?
So, the mana/regen/CDR changes were advertised as making CDR a more available statistic, but looking at the proposed changes, I can't see a good way to actually get CDR any more.
When I was playing a champion who wanted max CDR above everything else (namely, Karma), I would build
- two good items that provide AP, mana regen and 20% CDR each.
Now, Grail has been reworked into a support item that's not really useful to most mids (and even support-mids like Karma probably don't want it most of the time, since it's only useful near allies), but there's no other new 20% CDR item to replace it? What are we supposed to build if we want to rush CDR now?
I suppose the idea is that you build one 20% item (Morello, which seems like it will be mandatory on most mages), and then try to get the remaining CDR by building tanky items (
). Now, Zhonya's is a great thing to have, but Abyssal isn't really useful on longer-ranged champions, and spending a lot of money on those two items' other stats slows down your ability to reach 40% CDR by a lot. Perhaps the sceptre could be replaced by
, though that's not a very slot-efficient item.
tl;dr: Removing Grail as a viable choice for AP mids makes it look like there won't be a good way to rush 40% CDR any more.