Amongst a total of approximately 75 finished items, about 38 give cooldown reduction...

PaffWasTaken·Apr 15, 2019·3 votes·3,275 views

This means about a little over 50% of all the finished items we currently build give cooldown reduction. (not exact numbers, but this number shouldn't get any lower than 40% depending on which items are counted or not)

This, combined with runes lowering cooldown even more, just put the old League to contrast, where CDR was a rare ressource availlable to only some item paths for some champion groups only.

Maybe, just MAYBE that, in a meta where a lot of people complain about ability spamming, high damage and gameplay being way too fast, this MIGHT be a factor that you should look into, Riot. Building CDR should be a choice, not something you get for free along the way for almost anybody.

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Zero ShingetsuApr 15, 20191 votes

Excellent point. Come to think of it, CDR is pretty much a given now. They may as well just remove it at this point and cut everyone's cooldowns by about 40%... Even on Sejuani, where I'm generally building purely for mobility and armor, I tend to get at least 20% CDR.

Done25Apr 15, 20191 votes

CDR is there to help improve ability based power without actually giving CDR.

Imagine Luden's Echo with 120 AP instead of 80 AP and 20% CDR.

It's on anlot of tank items as tank often want CDR ASAP to better chain their CC.

Daddy AntsApr 15, 20191 votes

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This means about a little over 50% of all the finished items we currently build give cooldown reduction. (not exact numbers, but this number shouldn't get any lower than 40% depending on which items are counted or not)

This, combined with runes lowering cooldown even more, just put the old League to contrast, where CDR was a rare ressource availlable to only some item paths for some champion groups only.

Maybe, just MAYBE that, in a meta where a lot of people complain about ability spamming, high damage and gameplay being way too fast, this MIGHT be a factor that you should look into, Riot. Building CDR should be a choice, not something you get for free along the way for almost anybody.

The fact that you get 20% CDR for 1300 gold now a days is absurd.

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