About Cassiopeia.
As I write this, I think of three different things when Cassiopeia comes into my mind. Her current state in the meta, her lore and her playstyle/identity,.
I will not cover much about the meta and the lore, but focus on the last one.
About the state in the meta: as of 03/11, she is the 3rd least played champion in the game (I hope lolking is lying and she has more gameplay). Even with her re-launch and the Shurima event. So, to my eyes, people who really like Cassiopeia will be on the forums to talk about her, and not complain because of a SoloQ game which she stomped.
About her lore/identity: this is what Riot is trying to mix her with her playstyle, like the Passive she has right now, if you read the new lore/what stashu commented on "Cassiopeia Plans", it actually matches Cassiopeia's lore and is not something crazy despite the numbers, the stats, etc. The concept is Ok.
About her playstyle/identity: Cassiopeia's playstyle and identity is, to my eyes, the most complex of all champions. It's not like if you could play her AP or AD like Ezreal for example. But pre-rework Cassiopeia had actually two totally different playstyles which therefore, shows two identities within one champion: A DoT AoE Poison Mage and a Twin Fang machine gun (I play her like this). Hence, it ended up spliting Cassiopeia players into these two groups of players.
Riot and the Re-work: the re-work was straight forward. They buffed and centered Cassiopeia on her Twin Fang, making the second group of people fine with the fixes and buffs to E (me at least), while the whole other group ended up in the forums complaining. (Speaking just by myself) Although I am fine with the changes, I would sacrifice some potential in E to balance Q and W. After all, to be able to land a low cooldown Twin Fang, I need to have my target poisoned.
What do I want to explain: Stashu (or other Rioter which is involved on her changes), with the feedback of the first group, will change Cassiopeia into the DoT AoE Poison Mage identity. Therefore, people who's playstyle is to spam E, will end up on the forums just like people are doing now, having more issues and wasting time reworking Cassiopeia.
If I wasn't clear enough, I just ask for Cassiopeia to have this double identity back again. I have no idea what has to be changed and what needs to be done, but this should not be the thread to discuss it, since numbers weren't what I talked about, nor her spells. I just wanted to talk about her identity without spells getting involved too much, which obviously she was centered either on Q-W or E.
TL;DR Pre-rework Cassiopeia had actually two totally different playstyles: A DoT AoE Poison Mage and a Twin Fang machine gun. The re-work aimed Cassiopeia into a Twin Fang automatic rifle, so the group of people who played a safe AoE DoT Mage, started to complain (I am actually in favour of your request, to remove her Poison damage was not good either). What I just ask is to bring back this double identity she has.
Thank you for reading. I will add a poll just to know which is the largest group, I am curious.
