Talk:Vel'Koz/@comment-9048637-20151108223258/@comment-9008617-20151119034930

Well technically no stat is ever "free". If you try to make up for the last bit of 10% CDR to reach the cap then you have to give up either AP or MPEN from either runes or items (i.e. Lucidity vs Sorc Boots). I've managed to carry myself to high plat/low diamond in my first season of league playing mid/support Velkoz having only the 30% CDR base.

Although having a little more CDR would be nice, it really only amounts to 0.7 / 1.5 / 1.2 / 9 sec off Vel's CDs (q/w/e/r) - 50% more if you get the 5% bonus cap.

Personally, I'd rather the skills I do land actually do more damage rather than trying to spam more spells more often for less damage. Keep in mind it's easy to get mana gated the higher your CDR is.

I see where you're coming from but having higher CDR when you're behind often isn't enough to turn the tide since you're doing naturally less damage since you're behind (level difference) and even less damage per spell since you gave up the damage stats (AP/mpen) for more CDR. I suppose in a perfect world if you were allowed to hit all your spells on CD without being mana gated then CDR would make sense.