@Riot, Would you consider creating a 15% CdR Tier for items?

Illâoi Evê Siôn··4 votes·450 views

There are so many sources of CdR at the moment, most champions can easily reach 40% CdR without sacrificing anything in return. Items that offer tons of damage also offer 20% CdR. I understand that they wouldn't quite be the same with only 10% CdR, so why not make a compromise and give them 15% instead?

Items affected by this would be Black Cleaver, Morellonomicon, Essence Reaver and Trinity Force. Essence Reaver would grant up to +25% CdR total with 30% Critical Strike Chance. Trinity Force would require a recipe change and build out of Recurve Bow. Instead of granting the Recurve on hit passive, it would gain 10 Attack Damage and lose 10% Attack Speed. I think some champions might even welcome that change, like Gangplank and Hecarim.

Other items could be "nerfed down" to the 15% CdR tier as well, should they prove too powerful in the future. So this opens up another balance option. Some items might even get bumped up to the 15% CdR tier, like maybe Zeke's Herald?

On the topic of Zeke's Herald (and this is a bit off-topic), if you gave Zeke's 15% CdR it would create a perfect ladder with Ardent Censer and Athene's Unholy grail: 40 Ability Power + 20% CdR, 50 Ability Power + 15% CdR , 60 Ability Power + 10% CdR. The Sheen items would also have this ladder, but to be honest, I would rather all three Sheen upgrades gave 15% CdR and the Mage/Fighter/Tank aspects were the reasons why you picked one over the other.

P.s.: If Morellonimcon had only 80 Ability Power it could keep its 20% CdR.

4 Comments

Zane Zephyr2 votes

I don't think they'll do any CDR ending in 5 because without the mastery the cap is 40% so you would be forced to run 5% cdr runes to cap it since not too many people (including myself) are fond of things like 35% CDR.

Ahristocats4 votes

you're talking as if you HAVE to get 40% cdr

cdr is just an option, not something that you bust in every character to increase damage creep

Illâoi Evê Siôn3 votes

You could go 15 + 15 + 10 (instead of 20 + 20 + 10), or 15 + 25 with Essence Reaver. And a lot of champions have 15 in their Runes and then buy 30 with items. With this change it would 15 + 25.

And to be honest, I really think balance is more important than some people not liking to see the number 35.

SirΤeemο2 votes

there were many items with 15% cdr but they got deleted . sorry

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