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Kog's reverted W: is the cooldown timing also reverted?

Yumeii·9/13/2016, 5:33:02 PM·8 votes·4,631 views

Old Kog's W cooldown (17 seconds) used to start counting on activation, meaning that without any reduction, you had... 8 seconds uptime followed by 9 seconds downtime.

The machine-gun rework lowered the cooldown (13 - 7 seconds), reduced the duration to 6 seconds, and changed the timing to start counting after duration ended. So at max rank... 6 seconds uptime followed by 7 seconds downtime.

Now it seems we're getting old W back, but I don't see anywhere in the PBE notes saying that the cooldown timing is reverted. If it hasn't been, this means... 8 seconds uptime followed by 17 seconds downtime

So... I sure hope they remembered to revert the timing back to on activation. Can anyone confirm on the PBE?

12 Comments

RiotRiot Axes9/13/2016, 7:09:20 PM15 votes

Can confirm - the cooldown starts on hitting the button again.

Kaioko9/13/2016, 7:18:15 PM1 votes

Question along those lines - not entirely related but didn't feel like making a new thread:

I played Kog before the introduction of item 3508 - do you believe that item in conjunction with a crit item like item 3085 will be worth it on him? Combine that with 10% greater scaling CDRs from blues and you get to 40% CDR and are able to have the W with the increased range on a 10.2 second CD meaning it only has 2.2 seconds of down time.

It could also be helpful for your mana in order to spam your ultimate although I think you would then need a item 3043 which I'm not sure would make sense to build on him and make him weaker early.

Anotherherolost9/14/2016, 4:53:00 PM1 votes

95% of the ADCs have guns and they give the "machine gun" ability to the melting toilet bowl.