Talk:Spear of Shojin/@comment-38605851-20190306220121/@comment-27915839-20190819044359

It's not worth for several reasons.

1) Kog'Maw has a very high mana cost on his E & multiple uses of his R. If you were to get reduced CD's on his basic abilities, you would probably go oom after about 2-4 E's

2) The stats on this item are not what any current Kog'Maw builds needs. On-Hit Kog doesn't stack a lot of AD & AP Kog doesn't need CDR (Or AD). And since Kog'Maw's only AD scaling in his kit is on his ultimate, that's a lot of wasted AD.

3) The cool down on his W starts upon activation & the duration persists during the cool down. With 40% CDR, you have about 2 seconds of downtime where your W isn't active. Shojin's effect would cause a "Perma W" effect, but you would keep spending mana.

4) The best part about Shojin is the 50% AS on activation. Having to wait 30s for 8s of speed is counter-intuitive. And it also forces you to only R when in a major fight. This means not using it for wave clear or scouting bushes... which are 2 very important mechanics for any Kog player.

These are only 4 & I could make the list go on for a while, but to answer your question: Yes it "would" be effective, but you are spending too much gold on stats you don't need for an effect that isn't all that powerful and you have to put unnecessary limits on your style of play for a temporary steroid.

Nashor's Tooth literally does the same thing but has less wasted stats & is always on. You always get 50% AS instead of once every 30s for 8s.