Manaless mage CDR choices.

Hello message boards. Today I decided to go back to playing one of my favorite champions. I noticed overall that their is a lack of cdr options that are not either super specialized or have mana regen on them. I hate cdr itemization/runes in general right now for mages and I know the mage update is coming up. I would like a red to come and maybe give some info about if they are touching mage cdr itemization with the update. I'm just gonna put down a few thoughts I have on the current cdr items in relation to kennen.

Very specialized towards empowered auto mages. Kennen in theory could buy it and have synergy with his w... But again like the issue with all cdr items... Mana. Also has to be combined with cdr boots.

Mana regen. Nuff said.

PLEASE make this item the manaless counterpart to morellonomicon. Find a way to balance it with 20% cdr. This would help manaless mages so much. Spellvamp is either an abusive stat or incredibly weak so this item would be much better served as a 20% cdr item for manaless mages.

No. Kennen does not want attack speed or the passive effect. This item is so specialized it's only gotten on very few mages. Honestly a fine item with a good niche. Probably would buy it on kennen anyways as the other options are just as bad and at least the attack speed is better than mana. (also more expensive though)

Honestly probably one of the strongest options for Kennen. Gives him survivability and ap/cdr. Have to couple it with cdr boots taking a chunk of your damage away but still one of the better items.

Good if you need the stats. Terrible on Kennen. Moving on.

This item could actually work for Kennen mid. If you link with your adc and go in when the passive procs you could get a lot of work done. It gives you some nice defensive stats... But it has mana.... Oh well moving on. (also needs cdr boots to finish the 20%)

Support item. Doesn't give kennen anything other then cdr/mr and an active. Good support item. Terrible for kennen.

Oh this item looks goo.... Mana.

In a good place for tanks. Not useful for mages or kennen. Maybe some situational items you can get here for Kennen but most of it has mana on it anyways. Yeah I know right? Even the tank cdr items are against kennen.

Obviously not going to be bought on AP kennen. But ad cdr is in a good spot right now.

I could list the rest of the support cdr itemization but it's not worth mentioning. Your not going to buy any of them unless your support Kennen and even then they have some mana stat on them making Kennen a sad panda.

I do have another solution to the mana thing. What if you made these items convert that mana regen/max mana in to a energy regen/max energy function. Basically give energy champs greatly reduced numbers. I understand this would require lots of tweaking but could also help with the cdr issue. Normally I will just buy morello and accept that I'm wasting a stat.

(On a side note most high level players are either doing cdr boots/20% item/10% runes. 15% runes/10% item/10% item and ignoring the 5% missing. Or 10% item/10% item/cdr boots/10% runes. The major thing is when cdr itemization sucks all mids opt to get cdr boots over pen boots and I wish that it was a strategic decision to pick one over the other instead of just one always being the right choice. Also most of these choices still suck for Kennen...)

Thanks for listening! Sorry if my mana points make me seem like a dick. I just find it odd most cdr items have mana on them.

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P.S.2. This is not a post about complaining and i'm sorry if it comes off that way. I still play kennen fine and can deal with the itemization I'm just curious if there will be changes that will change how we itemize cdr on mages.