Cassiopeia's balance has always been a RED HERRING. Yet people are still going on about her winrate

5G8Nri0B54·Jan 22, 2015·6 votes·940 views

Cassiopeia's balance has always been a RED HERRING as far as issues go. Anything that is UP can be buffed. Anything that is OP can be nerfed. Simple as that. Nobody gives a crap about whether some pros play her in seeding, or whether she appears in LCS.

The issue with her rework. Why her rework sucks. It has ALWAYS been about her gameplay and not her balance. This is the failure of Patch 4.21. It addressed nothing BUT her balance. It appealed to no one but Spikes who only cares about playing a champion that is OP.

So with that out of the way. Nerf her all you like Riot. But the only thing that matters in the end is whether she plays like she should or not. Whether her gameplay fits her. THAT is what matters in the end. Why? Because as I said in the very beginning, if Cassiopeia as a Poison mage is imbalanced, you can raise or lower her numbers as you see fit and make her balanced.

Are the Spikes unhappy? Then jack her winrate up to 54% again so they can flock in like sheeps. Cassiopeia's winrate, whether she is strong or weak, never have, and never will be an issue, because that is the EASIEST problem to fix.

Don't be afraid to admit it, my posts look like shit too when I type on my mobile while on a shaking sky train. In fact, all those gigantic walls of posts that people recognize me for...are all wall of posts specifically because I wanted to kill time while on a sky train.

No I see Singed as a tank mage. If you look at lolking his top three items are ROA, RCS and Seraph's embrace. All item you see more on mages then tanks. This is because his pass makes mana good on him. Throw Liandry's Torment on him and his poison hurt like hell.

No, you see, that's not what makes a champion a mage. Singed builds all those magical items because his ratios and kit dictates it. HOWEVER, he is not a "mage". His play pattern is nothing like a mage. His fantasy is nothing like a mage.

If you want to find a "mage" equivalent of Singed, look for Ziggs. Obviously there are overlaps between theme and role. For instance, Ezreal may be an ADC, but he could just as easily have been conceived as a mage. Ziggs is obviously a mage, Riot could just as easily have given him an ADC kit if you get what I mean.

HOWEVER, someone like Singed will never be a "mage" because that's just not a part of his artistic design. Let's put this another way, Warwick (used to...) and Maokai can build AP...does that make them a "mage". No, for the exact same aesthetic and patterned reasons.

No I mean R as well.I see it sort of as a AOE DOT as he will keep damage up to three enemy for ever second he has it on and they are in range. So to me that is a DOT.

Wait...wat. No, Cass's R is a very conditional cone nuke that either slows or stuns. Nothing about it is remotely DoT...

First thing first. I did not say snake mage. I said snake champ.

Okay, this I will 100% disagree with, not the part about what you said, but that she is a snake champ than a snake mage.

Anyways it's still poorly handled. For one thing, the moment she starts shooting those gigantic fangs like a machine gun is the moment any fantasy of a snake OR poison mage is immediately killed.

For one thing, I can tell you from personal expereince that snakes don't try to bite you 100 times else that kinda defeats the entire point of their venom. When they do attempt multiple bites, it's because they're constantly failing to inject any venom or the venom isn't doing anything at all (mongoose and possums)

As for the amateurishly handled part. The thing I about that is i hear that ever time they rework a champ. Hell this past week or two that is all i heard when I see the word assassins.

...paraphrase please. I think there are words missing here and there that would have made this sentence easier to understand...

Worse, Cassiopeia was in a far better place than Sion was, all Stashu did was stir things up.

Know what the good thing about those two champions are?

Upon release, they both genuinely suck hard for their own respective reasons...BUT a lot of people played them a lot, a lot more than Cassiopeia or many more average champions. They play those champions despite their suckage.

Cassiopeia? Her playrate is low even after she became OP. Her playrate has only slightly risen as of late 100% because of "muh 54% winratez"

Cassiopeia's balance has always been a RED HERRING. Yet people are still going on about her winrate

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Or something even earlier. Okay poisoning a target fuels her Passive that even current Cass fans hate...why isn't there any animations or indicator that shows her gaining stacks faster than it passively does when she poisons an enemy champion?

Don't be afraid to admit it, my posts look like shit too when I type on my mobile while on a shaking sky train. In fact, all those gigantic walls of posts that people recognize me for...are all wall of posts specifically because I wanted to kill time while on a sky train.

Worse, Cassiopeia was in a far better place than Sion was, all Stashu did was stir things up.

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