@Riot - Aren't you forgetting about someone?

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It's good to see you've finally managed to establish a dialogue between the Mordefans and the guys in charge of his rework. Changing his title (the Iron Revenant) and trying different things on the PBE are indicators that you're TRYING to listen. I'm really glad those guys managed to influence you somehow after their ongoing efforts.

But aren't you forgetting about a certain champion's playerbase? Remember the countless threads and complaints for months nonstop, and yet you haven't even tried to talk to us? It's been over half a year now since you've touched Cass and the only nature of those changes were nerfs of devastating nature. Right now Cassiopeia could easily be considered the Urgot of midlane, she literally receives as little attention or love as he does - may it be in terms of stats or even playstyle, they're extremely similiar.

At least Urgot is scheduled to receive a champion update ala Sion, I wish I could say the same about Cass. I feel that she received the short end of the stick back then in 4.16 when you rushed her rework onto live-servers just to ignore any critique or feedback regarding the direction this rework was taking. Fastforward an entire year and we've almost gone full circle, we're stuck with a heavily neutered champion who resembles the trainwreck you've given us when the rework first launched.

There's absolutely nothing redeeming about playing this champion anymore (infact Azir does her job FAR better despite his nerfs), she feels extremely onedimensional due to her binary playstyle and lacks any depth beyond how effectively you might be able to violate your E-key. Instead of working on her main issues (her lack of mobility, limited range and inherent squishyness aswell as her unreliable ultimate) you've decided to emphasize those weaknesses by making them even worse while delaying her powerspike massively. You also made sure to slap some horrendous manacosts on her.

Gating her progress through two instances (her passive and gold-income) is an extremely unhealthy design and makes playing the champion a literal bore. At least Nasus or Veigar receive their bonuses instantly while Cass has to wait for an undetermined period of time until she finally gets to do something. She also lacks the safety-nets of those champions to even remain relevant once things get hot (inherent tankyness or safe range and reliable aoe-stun).

You may have seen the recent game at Worlds between KOO Tigers and KT Rolster - did you notice how useless Cassiopeia was? Most of the time she simply was unable to get into position due to her lack of mobility which either made her arrive far too late at crucial fights or forced her to abandon her teammates. Also not a single one of her ultimates was able to hit her targets, thanks to the awful cast-delay and short range of the ability. She's far too unreliable and lacks the necessary flexibility of other champions to be considered truly viable.

There are far better champions out there when it comes to filling the nichè of the hypercarry, Kog'Maw and Karthus alone already dish out 10k damage MORE than her on an average basis in the course of an entire game. The game at Worlds went on for 40 minutes and yet there was zero impact from Cassiopeia despite her hitting her lategame passive.

I really don't understand how you can ignore those who mained her FOR YEARS, instead you choose to enforce whatever twisted fantasy of a poison-mage you have without even considering our wishes and concerns. We've literally predicted all of this and you still chose to ignore us. Don't you understand that the only way to make her kit work is by focusing on her poison-abilities?

It's too bad that his champion doesn't even make use of her poison anymore, her Q and W were reduced to tickle-attacks while only serving as a gateway to enable Twin Fang spam. An ability with unreasonable manacosts, short range and strict focus on sinlge target damage. She also can't change targets without poisoning someone beforehand, it's too bad she's instantly removed from the fight once her E goes on cooldown.

It's funny, you're trying to promote a lategame-hypercarry who doesn't even excel at teamfights, infact her winrate hardly reaches 50% even after the 40 minute mark has been passed. And it gets a lot worse the more games you play on her. How exactly is playing Cassiopeia worth our time?

There's so much wrong with this champion and yet you managed to neglect her for the majority of this season now, that needs to change. You've done it for Mordekaiser (at least his playerbase didn't have to wait for half a year to get a response), now it's our turn. At least consider some Cass changes for the upcoming pre-season so that we may finally be able to play this champion again in a way that makes her fun and viable again.