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Cassiopeia 2016 Rework

Mossy Lungs·5/5/2016, 4:21:02 AM·9 votes·1,932 views

After being so hyped and excited to see one of my favorite champions in the game to get a rework to make her healthier, and more interesting to play, I can truly say I've never been so disappointed. Cassiopeia is nothing like she was before. The only spell that feels the same is her ultimate. Her W is insanely useless. It doesn't give a lingering affect after being "POISONED" It's not able to be used over walls, which makes it extremely useless in so many instances in the game. It doesn't do nearly enough damage until you have stacked up ability power upon ability power, and the sizing isn't controllable especially not with that awful indicator. Her Q feels so small now that her Miasma cloud isn't where you get your poison off, it feels like it's supposed to be more important, yet ends up being a waste of time that usually gets you to take too much damage while "TRYING" to get it off. Her passive is helpful I'll admit, but not being able to buy into slow-prevention, tenacity, or penetration through an easy upgrade really felt unfair and stupid. Her E is the worst it's ever been. The cooldown is short, but not short enough to feel good when trying to use it I feel confused at what my goal is, the health you get back is so minimal and there isn't a mana refund on spamming on poisoned targets like it should be, It feels so incredibly clunky... honestly Cassiopeia ultimately feels so awful. I'm incredibly pissed off at what you did to her. You are creating Champion after Champion so why would you care about ruining one older champion that means a lot to some people. She didn't need as much tinkering with. I am upset that it'll be another year or so before you fix this atrocity you caused. This is just another Skarner/Cassiopeia rework that is stupid and gimmicky and highly unnecessary.

10 Comments

Nox Shadows5/5/2016, 4:31:19 AM5 votes

I agree she is so bad now i will miss playing her RIP Cassiopeia

Cawen5/5/2016, 6:13:45 PM3 votes

Just played Cassiopeia and I agree she is terrible, even more than before. Her passive gives her no benefit at all---no extra AP, no magic pen(from lack of sorc boots) and no early game movement speed. Her E is garbage unless you build 40% cdr, which then traces you off her best build. My team was making fun of me the entire game and I'm just like, you don't even understand. They are trying to build her like a kite champion, but honestly, there is minimal kiting in league of legends. Almost every champion has a gap closer that it becomes useless.

Bobloser35555/8/2016, 10:59:03 AM2 votes

We should start a petition to get our Cassiopeia back.

Vanjie5/5/2016, 4:39:10 AM1 votes

I think you are overreacting a little bit. New Cass is 100% better than previous Cass. Riot kept almost everything the entire community wanted and explained why they decided to not make her a true "poison" type mage. The community wanted to retain Cass's ability to spam players health down with E. The community detested her passive and Riot gave her a new one that benefits her so much more than what she had before. Now players can kite extremely well with Cass, which is what snakes do in RL. Snakes are all about slithering away from danger or to engage on their pray.

When Cass get's her opponents health down low enough she can go in for the kill with her new passive. W and R can be used to stop them from getting away and E can be used to finish the job. The speed boost with Q helps as well. Cass's new kit is what the entire community asked for. The Cass from before was all about using your poisons to stack her passive and dwindle their health to the point that she can go in for the kill. The new Cass is just a better way at doing that while providing her with more options to kite away from danger.

I will admit that she is probably a little weak numbers wise . . . in the damage department compared to everyone else. Hopefully Riot will adjust this and maybe even give her more movement speed per levels on her passive. The option of being able to buy another damage or utility item on Cass is worth having a passive that grants her more movement speed than boots with magic pen attached to it. You can buy a Void Staff and Liandrys Torment now to do more magic pen damage and move faster.

Why are you whining? I think her update was VERY successful and she just needs a few number adjustments.

Vistha Kai5/8/2016, 11:18:07 AM1 votes

Wait another year for another rework that will be another failure.

Riot hates Cassio that much, apparently.

A Basic Island5/8/2016, 11:30:18 AM1 votes

called W being bad when everyone was going on about the "grounded" debuff a few weeks ago

It honesty blows my mind that rito or anyone could think that her W would be good with it's set range and no ability to reposition it. If you had to ability to just drop it on someone, then it'd actually be all right. But as it stands now, they gotta be a little more than flash range away to hit it, AND they can just flash OVER it. So pretty much to hit it, you gotta go outside the range of your other spells or at the very edge. So you can't hit other spells just to apply grounded. Wonderful.

Cass: "Yes! They're between me and the W, i gottem now!!!"

Any champion: uses mobility spell to get over the W

cass: rito pls