User blog comment:GutsyTick/CC: Viden, the Seeress of Death/@comment-4290320-20150828103226/@comment-26044269-20150829094401

I feel that I should state how the ten second delay is there to enforce the playstyle of an "assassin who needs to meditate her kills". It may make the whole passive seem overloaded, but I believe it's an integral part of her kit, and that it shouldn't be removed for the sake of simplification; doing so would just gut the whole point of the kit.

Nice suggestion on Ward though. I'll most likely update it with a slightly altered version of yours. However, for the point of CC-less teams nullifying Ward, it should be noted that CC-less teams would also possess no hope of denying Viden her passive's damage, which is arguably the biggest part of her damage in a full rotation (also a CC-less team kinda implies a team without a true tank and support, and we all know how good that works right).