User blog comment:Sagee Prime/Nidalee rework Final/@comment-4881935-20121003012150/@comment-4881935-20121004024047

A free aura that grants all nearby champions 10% damage to health (which is better than having both life steal and spell vamp), and a free 35% attack speed boost for the team. And then this spell still have two other side effects, cougar form, and a huge self steroid.

What's the advantage of going more cooldown, well, to stack that armor/magic 'reduction' that is still overpowered and more mobility and burst from cougar form. Also, more poking with her Q and traps. Just because she has strong scaling doesn't make going cooldown reduction worse.

I might over analyze the cooldown, but you are clearly under analyzing all the viable paths you are giving her. Your trying to make all different paths viable for her with the only set back being, she just can't excel at everything at once (or so you hope). In other words, She can't take full advantage of all her strengths with one build so it makes balance. That's not being balance.

As I said many times, because the armor/magic resist 'shred', aka reduction, benefits your entire team, and on a reliable consistent method, that value must go down. 40% reduction is a huge boost! That's what I keep saying. This isn't a tank killing stat, it's a we kill anyone stat because all defense is useless.

Even if it's just penetration and not 'shred', it should still be lower. 40% for both resistance is way too much as a free passive stat (still acknowledge that it stack, but still free). As I said, build defense for both stats is equally as hard as building damage for both.

Also, if it's only meant for drawn out battles, then it shouldn't be getting 2 stacks on abilities (or even 1 for that matter) since spamming spells is not hard, especially in her cougar form which has so many low cooldown spells. Pounce, auto-attack, swipe, takedown, oh look, i have 7 stacks already. That's didn't require that much time to stack it up and isn't that hard.

.... With all those other changes, that bonus armor and magic resistance for cougar form is just more overkill.