Should passives scale with CDR?

Zerana·Dec 29, 2014·1 votes·594 views

It's not surprising that timed passives typically have either long cool downs like Anivia's, or a mechanic put in to lower the time via spell casts or AA's; so would it be game breaking if CDR affected passives? This is just s discussion about the champs this change would effect and if it would break them. I personally don't think it would since CDR is build reliant. The decisions of the player would effect the passive timer it would not just be about who's OP and whose not.

Champions who would be affected are as follows

5 Comments

Hyrum GraffDec 29, 20143 votes

You'd have to rebalance all those champs, probably give their passives longer base cooldowns. Not worth, imo.

Deep Terror NamiDec 29, 20142 votes

I think it would mess with the importance of CDR too much on some champions. Like some who currently don't need it at all would then want to max it out. It's good to keep it simple.

Instead, have those champions' passive cooldowns scale with level.

Kuroi86Dec 29, 20141 votes

Eh, it could be nice on some champs, others don't really need it though. But then you've got to consider balancing issues and that the cd on the passives may need to be tweaked to make up for that.

MeserionDec 29, 20141 votes

maybe if passives only benefited from 50% of your total CDR it would be doable; those long cds on their passives are there for balance reasons; also passives are not meant to be uber strong since the require almost no interaction on the player's behalf

Penguin EclipseDec 29, 20141 votes

No, because not all champions have passives that would be affected by CDR. You would either have to nerf all the champions that are affected or buff all the champions that are not.