Talk:Soraka/@comment-3017217-20140909105213/@comment-1330314-20140910011205

Soraka's bonus armor/MR replacement is there to prevent her from becoming tanky, no matter what she builds. Her PBE kit allows her to keep her entire team alive through heavy damage, so the enemy team needs to kill her or they'll likely lose the teamfight, which is why she's slow, squishy and unable to heal herself through her W.

If you wanted a champion who could go up to 60% CDR, you'd need a good reason for that to happen: first off, the balancing would force that champion to build CDR no matter what, but you'd also need abilities that would work on such a steep cooldown reduction curve (i.e. high early power with a long cooldown versus spammable late game utility).