With the New Triforce Coming Out, Can You Make Corki's Ult Scale With CDR?
While the new Triforce will be really awesome on a lot of Chmapions and I like the change itself, there are two of its current main users who will take a hard hit because of it.
The first one is Yasuo. Here I really don't think that he needs any compensation changes because he still has the option of going the classic IEdge build and considering how high his winrate is right now in the toplane even though his high skillcap should pull it down, maybe an indirect nerf is not too bad for the game balance overall.
The other one who I feel really sorry for is Corki. Because he is an ADC he is focussing on buying a lot of crit because he can buy enough other AD and crit chance to make it worth. He loves Triforce right now because buying an IEdge after it will spike your damage really hard since Triforce itself gives crit chance currently.
With the changes they are making to it though the crit aspect will be replaced by attack speed which he can still make proper use of but not as much as he would with crit.
It also gets more CDR for the removal of crit - you'd think that a spellcaster marksman like Corki would love that but his ult has a static Cooldown and works with an ammo system, which does not scale with CDR - which makes CDR much more useless on him than on other spellcaster-marksmen like Ezreal and Lucian. This is also shown by the fact that an Essence Reaver build on him has a 45% winrate whereas a IEdge build has a winrate of 47%.
And that brings me to my next point. Considering how low his average winrate is in both mid and bot right now, this might just destroy him. Every build options he will have now are really meh. I already talked about why Triforce won't be as good anymore. The other option would be a normal marksman crit build with one of the attackspeed-crit items ( rapidfire cannon, statikk's, PD ) into IEdge. Considering just how good Corki scales with raw AD compared to attackspeed, buying one of those attackspeed items kinda sucks on him. He can also replace IEdge with Essence Reaver but that would be even worse because yet again he scales really bad with CDR. This also prevents him from going for the pen build that other Marksmen that are similar to him are going for, on top of him dealing about 3/4 magic damage which would make the pen kinda useless on him.
With all that in mind I think it would be nice if his ult gets the teemo shroom treatment where the recharge timer of its ammo system scales with CDR, not the 2 second static cooldown itself. Yeah, I know, this is a really huge buff to him and might escalate to being too good and making him OP, but not touching him even though he struggles to be good right now and will struggle even more in the future ( I'm estimating him to sit around 42-43% next patch, just like Yi after the changes to Sated Devourer and Guinsoo's ), I think it's justified and worth him potentially being really strong for one or two patches until he may get nerfed elsewhere again.