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Cassiopeia's passive is more a handicap than an advantage

Wovy·10/14/2018, 12:14:47 PM·3 votes·1,006 views

When have you ever played a game in which you have actually reached 6 items on cassiopeia to make up for the lack of early MP boots? Besides having pityful MS early and not being able to do much about it, cassio also gets shut down by early MR.

Not only it is a boring, uninteractive passive, but it is also more of a handicap to cassio for the early game, and honestly, it never really translates to lategame since you never get that 6th item, actually, almost any champ get 5 items. The only way to get that amount of items is to have a super early snowball and that the game also lasts for 40 mins, but Cassio is also balanced to restrict her early power (mana hungry af) so it is hard to get her snowballing without jungler help, and if you are having an early snowball, why wait 40 mins if you can end it in 25 mins?

So why have a passive inwhich you will use only 1/100 games?

Am I the only one who thinks this passive is boring and just plain bad and lazily done?

5 Comments

Krully10/14/2018, 12:24:20 PM2 votes

they added it because of the meme cass has no legs why have boots lmao

DuskDaUmbreon10/14/2018, 1:31:39 PM2 votes

It makes up for itself a lot, actually.

You don't have to spend gold on boots, then, and you get another slot to use. Plus, MS bonus at 18 on Cass is slightly better than the MS from boots, I believe.

Yes, you don't get quite as much MS as everyone else by the time they'd get boots, but it's honestly worthwhile. Pick up an item 3916 second to make up for it, if you want to, because you'll get much better stats at the cost of only 3 mpen.

GBkiwi10/14/2018, 2:24:28 PM1 votes

Honestly with phase rush I barely notice the movespeed issues , if anything when I take cass top against bruisers I just bully them out of the lane and they can’t close the distance due to phase rush ...

wildfox9T10/14/2018, 3:38:58 PM1 votes

but Cassio is also balanced to restrict her early power (mana hungry af)

what?

Q : 5070 mana W : 70 mana E : 4080 mana

i can't see how her mana cost are high in early even without considering she have mana sustain unless you don't mindlessy spam all your abilities as soon as they are up you will never run OOM,and after item 3070 you are basically manaless unless you don't stay on your lane for ages

about the passive,it's quite good,it gives you free stats and allow you to skip 1 item for an early powerspike on top of an additional slot if you buy a lot of component items/you have runes like biscuit delivery or if you get in lategame