Cass

Magister Gir·5/12/2016, 12:07:46 AM·6 votes·754 views

Can we revert Cassiopeia's changes? The changes, though they were.... skeptically welcomed at first have just been absolutely HORRID upon her. The new passive gives her ZERO actual gameplay nor does it help with anything. The only thing that it does if make room for another item, great! Though the only benefit that actually comes from it. The gaining movement speed is pathetically weak, 4 MS every level has made Cass's passive punched in the WORST in game passives (like Kog'Maws).

Her Q thank god was left the same which is just fine because it helps her a lot. Gives a DoT, burst of speed, and something for her E to proc on along with some.... modest? range poke. Actually like the changes to it as well except for the reduced range which hinders her poke.

Her W, the thing I thought was going to be grand was a curse in disguise. Though it offers a lot in chasing and zoning much like her old one did, though the new one much better. It offers ZERO escape. An ability that was her go to ability for a lot of stuff has been rendered useless in a lot of regards as well. The only time it can be used as an escape mechanism is if you're helping an ally get away. The minimal range as well makes it almost impossible to zone someone off of you like a xin or Jax who just have point and click gap closers. This make it to where a Cass has to either flash or waste her ult on just one person unless they're fed (which I don't see happening). The removal of the dot as well hurts her damage output as it can no longer proc with her Twin Fangs, leaving only Q unless the enemies decided to stand on her W which they usually don't. It's also extremely simple to get away from making the slow pointless since it doesn't actually stick them.

Her E, Twin Fangs, feels more like a tickle fight now. The reduction of the damage for reduced cool down was completely unnecessary. it hurts her laning phase more than anything forcing her to either last hit with auto's and get poked or waste more mana to Q+E combo down minions. This also hurts her damage in trades where her E was great at poking, even without poison, is no useless unless you land your Noxious cloud Q, or have an enemy stand in your Miasma W. It only doing 96 damage at Ranked 5 (damage is based on lvl. Secondary bonus damage is based on Rank) is outrageous it means her damage is completely revolved around landing her Q and W and if she doesnt well she's not missing a chunk of damage. Her main source of damage is completely irrelevant as long as you can dodge an easy Q or walk right out of miasma which easier done than said.

Her R, Petrifying Gaze. Still the same-ish. The reduced MS slow is blah, not that great of a change that was unneeded. Her reduction of cast range however is just uncalled for. This just hurts her and makes Cass players have to actually run in close range to ult and cant even reach the back line with it now, only being useful to stop a front line which even then the backline can just back away till the front is back. The stun though strong, isn't long enough to justify for Cass having to run up and try to use it offensively. it feels like it's strictly meant to be used defensively now.

All in All TL;DR Cass changes are horrendous, dropped her down so much, and she doesn't even feel like Cass anymore but rather a new champ with her name slapped on it. Please do some hard buffs on everything to actually bring back up on the Win % so she isnt the very bottom. Literally the worst champion with win rate scoring below 40% compared to other champions who are all above 40%. The only TWO who are even below 45% win rate are Swain and Vlad at 42%, the changes hurting old mages more so than actually helping like you wanted.

3 Comments

Scarborough Fair5/12/2016, 1:44:17 PM2 votes

Right now she's strong against mages but very weak against the class she was aimed to counter with her new mechanic (Assassins). Overall she feels nice to me and reminds me of old Cass in alot of ways (except for that useless passive) but she goes against what Riot planned for her which is being a mobile anti-mobility mage.

Tiowthy5/12/2016, 8:50:11 AM1 votes

i dont even know anymore

Lady Hammerlock5/12/2016, 10:40:32 AM1 votes

I find Proccing Twin fangs with Miasma way easier...