Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-186.136.186.166-20120623170222/@comment-5052127-20120624050754

CDR isn't AS important during laning phase really if you are mid... It really starts to shine more when real fighting starts.. I usually get some mana and my penetration and deathcap first, then go for increasing my CDR more.

But... if I'm duo laning or I'm top against AD, I like getting CDR earlier, helps me use grenade to harass and screw up their farming more, as well as make it harder for them to damage me (grenade with maxed cdr is a 3 second blind every 5 seconds.. not fun for an AD trying to farm, especially a melee)... Usually what I do in these cases is rush glacial shroud (it's enough armor along with my health regen passive that I can practically farm forever, with enough mana and CDR to practically spam my abilities, letting me bully even the toughest ADs), and best of all, the CDR is practically free thanks to all the mana that glacial shroud gives you for its item cost. Once I have shroud and boots, I can harass them like mad, they can't touch me, then i just farm up my deathcap and go from there.