Is no one going to complain about Cass?

shyie·4/22/2016, 1:04:53 AM·1 votes·507 views

I've played her a lot in S5 and her rework looks awful, and idk y no one is talking about it. Her passive went from a free death cap to a free boots of swiftness, and her E got nerfed in the sense that shes no longer the machine gun caster she once was. It bothers me more why no one is talking about it. Why?

4 Comments

Abyssphere4/22/2016, 1:19:52 AM3 votes

Losing the "free Deathcap" doesn't hurt so bad when your damage numbers go up across the board because of it. Q has gone from 235 (+ 45% AP) to 255 (+ 70% AP), W has gone from 30 (+ 10% AP) to 80 (+ 15% AP) and E has gone from 155 (+ 55% AP) to 250 (+ 45% AP). She's been heavily compensated for the loss of her old passive and she doesn't need to wait 40 minutes for her damage anymore.
Her passive is more than a free Boots of Swiftness. It's a free Boots of Swiftness that gives her the option to skip boots (slot inefficient items) in exchange for taking another expensive item. You can now replace Sorc Shoes with Liandry's and get the same amount of pen, plus 80 AP, 300 HP and a damage passive. That's amazing.
E gets down to a 0.54s cooldown if you need it to be incredibly low. She doesn't itemise CDR super well so it won't usually get that low but you should easily get it down to 0.7s and probably lower. This is a trade-off for the hugely increased power in her poisons, anyway. E couldn't afford to be as strong as it was pre-rework because pre-rework it completely warped her kit around it.

People aren't complaining because it's a good rework. It removes her unintuitive old passive, redistributes her power budget so that her kit isn't one good ability and three trashy ones and differentiates her poisons so that they both feel like they have unique roles in her kit. Cass players could not have asked for more.

YumScrumptious964/22/2016, 1:24:08 AM1 votes

I liked Cass as she was before, she could zone amazingly and destroy targets, her new passive seems lackluster and I much preferred the AP scaling as you could really carry in teamfights with it. I agree with you.

Blue Kaozi4/22/2016, 1:32:20 AM1 votes

I for one am excited for the higher bases and 6 item carry. Late game she'll be terrifying since you cant beat having a free item slot. (unless you sell boots of course, but then she'll kite you for days)

I only wish the w weren't fixed range targeted