Talk:Riven/@comment-5209745-20140814233945/@comment-24105188-20140930162519

the thing about cdr is, unlike other stats, it does not have diminishing returns the more of it you get. Think of it this way.

If I have 100 AD, and I build a BFS, I now have 150 AD, a 50% increase in power! But if I build another BFS, I have 200, which, from our current position, is only a 30% increase.

With CDR, if I build a brutalizer, my cooldowns went from 100% to 90%, which is a 10% increase in power. but if I build, say a kindlegem, with 10% CDR, my cooldowns are at 80% from 90% which is and 11.11% increase in power! and it only becomes more valuable the closer to 40% CDR you get

Personally though, I play a lot of jungle Riven, so I get 40% cdr really quickly with the extra 10% from SotEL.. wind slash baron steals OPAF