User blog comment:GreenMoriyama/Nine, the Magus of Elemancy (collab w-Lesdin)/@comment-25235491-20170915120110/@comment-27802145-20170915153259

 * sigh*

Either the wording is indeed horrible, or people are growing a fancy for misinterpreting. Going to keep this quick so apologies in advance for my hastiness, but I'm very tired rn.


 * P: By definition of "current cooldown", the CD-reduction cannot allow the ability to go off cooldown regardless of how many times you apply it without some time passing, so everything regarding that being problematic is moot. As for the CD-reduction possibly stacking on multiple champion hits, that is a clarity issue to be entirely fair, so thank you for bringing that up. Just to clear it up here though, it doesn't stack.
 * Q: Damage doesn't stack on different casts combining on the empowered cast, as that is the trade off for a singular cast applying the bonus effects on a potentially increased area. So furthering on your points from how hard it should be to get all 3 stacks to be varied, it has 200 base damage, not 600. Also where did you get the idea that the empowered cast can only be activated with the innate? The only gating is the 3 stacks, nothing else.
 * W: The buff affects the "most recently tracked" cast of Q, regardless of whether it is currently tracked or not. I believe this wasn't an issue of the wording, but just general interpretation. As for the "synergy overload", I'll take the problem into account, but the boost was put there to give Nine an incentive to use it effectively and to reward her for doing so, rather than forcing synergy.
 * E: All intended. Numbers may be overtuned, but are subject to change.
 * R: Same as above. Though I must say to be fair some other mages also have pretty stupid numbers.