@Riot - There's something extremely wrong with Cassiopeia.
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You know, I can't shake the feeling that you're treating Cass like some unwanted child - most of the time you're simply neglecting her but during moments where she manages to catch your attention she immediately becomes the target of abuse. Your history with this champion is by no means a happy one, it's a rather sad one.
We're all aware how you missed the mark with her rework: champion identity? Gone, her poison damage basically removed in favor of Twin Fang spam - and don't get me even started on the butchered lore. Playerbase? Drastically reduced by half (!) since the rework happened. Fun? There's nothing enjoyable about playing this binary mess while being chained to an extremely late powerspike which you'll probably never hit. Most of the time you're just playing a handicapped champion who doesn't get to reach their full potential.
Pre-season has turned this game into a hellhole for Cassiopeia due to games ending far too quickly all thanks to your extremely problematic snowball-mechanics. All she can do is try to survive for 40 minutes before becoming somewhat useful, and even then her lategame is vastly overrated and doesn't ever exceed a 50% winrate at that point (also let me remind you, her winrate's between 39-43% during the first 25 minutes). Care to remind me why she's worth the effort again?
But like I said earlier, MOST games don't even last that long. And you're still pretty much relying on your teammates to keep you alive, she's by no means capable of 1v5ing like she used to before the rework when she was capable of melting entire teams with her Q and W. It's beyond me how you could even consider a short ranged, squishy, immobile caster with a strict focus on single target-damage to be a RELIABLE hypercarry. This goes beyond common logic, it simply doesn't make any sense. Let's also not forget that she's unable of switching targets as easily as a real marksman.
Meanwhile your dear teammates have to deal with a rather passive midlaner while she's trying to stay in her safe-zone, the game's basically a 4v5 if you're trying to avoid death at all costs. And you REALLY don't want to die on Cassiopeia, every single second you spend on farming minions counts here. Unlike other champions, Cassiopeia's powerspike is gated through two instances - her passive stacks AND her gold income. And both are strictly linked to each other, falling behind in farm can easily ruin the game for her. Just ganking her 1-2 times in lane is enough to shut her down for the rest of the game.
Let me ask you, WHO even WANTS to play this champion anymore? Who can say they're enjoying themselves while playing this extremely unreliable and binary champion? Who even wants to see a Cassiopeia on their team nowadays? Your rework has caused far more damage than you could imagine, this has gone beyond mere viability at this point. I'm talking about Cassio's reputation here.
Have you seen how little sympathy Cassiopeia receives within the community itself? You're lucky enough to even find artwork of her (kudos to the talented people out there who have drawn her), let alone any merchandise. I don't even recall you ever granting her any fanservice - no summoner icon, no skins (it's been almost 3 years since Jade Fang Cass came out), no animations (neither fanmade nor official), no stickers, no figurine, simply NOTHING.
We're dealing with an ongoing history of negligence here, there's no doubt. Heck, even Mordekaiser's rework is receving more care and attention right now than Cassiopeia's back then, and since then you hardly tried to even make up for your shortcomings. Instead of raising to the challenge you tried your hardest to shove her carCASS under the carpet, it's too bad the noticeable bulge she left behind couldn't be easily ignored like that.
I simply don't understand you anymore. First you admit that she's in a bad spot with the initial rework failing to meet its goals, and yet you refuse to even touch her? I've checked the PBE countless times and she didn't receive any changes on there, what are you even doing with her? Yes, she needs another rework but that's no reason to let us wait for god knows how long until that happens. Didn't you say that you'd look into the immobile mage-update during mid 2016? That's most likely another six months of waiting, and YOU CAN'T EVEN GUARANTEE that she'll be affected by it.
Listen, all I'm asking for is something to work with until her time has come. Would it be too much to ask for a reversal on some of those nerfs she received between patch 5.2 and 5.10? I'm talking about manacosts, because her Twin Fang ability right now is just too expensive with its 90 mana (the same goes for her Q cost which was raised from 60 to 80). Also let's not forget the devastating nerf to her sustain by HALVING her mana refund and spellvamp ratio. The closest thing to a truly viable rework Cassiopeia was her 4.21-self so why not revert her to a similiar state until you've got her next rework ready?
where their kit is so inherently toxic that they can't be allowed to be strong and Riot doesn't want to deal with them so they kind of just sweep them under the rug.
they can all dish it out just as easily
they're better at it than she is
has a more reliable teamwide stun
and most of the above, along with practically 80% of mids have longer range than she does.
has gotten two skins within the same year*.
