User blog comment:JmLyan/Aliara, the Sharpshooter/@comment-24377865-20140411200153/@comment-7481207-20140412095841

I have though about different ideas of creating a marksman that doesn't benefit from cooldown reduction for a while, but this particular idea I actually came up with the same day i created the champion. I'm more of an improvise person than thinking it through beforehand.