It feels like Cassiopia requires too many items just to function reliably...

Honestly, I love Cassiopea kit, but it is amazingly unreliable unless you buy. I honestly don't like because the stats suck and I don't really like permaslow/non damage passives. So I've been trying to play her without it and here is what I found.

Every spell has is very conditional or unreliable.

Q: has like a 1 second delay. This spell is utterly unreliable against a moving target that is not running in a straight line. It gets worst late game when everyone has 400 plus movement speed.

W: goodluck grounding anything that is moving. It has a huge delay and will often land on the edge of a moving target. It doesn't help chain to her Q much either as the cast animation will often prevent you from casting your q quickly enough to land it. The animation is so slow that if you press W E combo quickly, the E will hit the target before the W hits the ground, causing that E to hit as a none poisoned E.

E: Very fast cast/projectile speed. Only thing in her kit I'm satisfied with.

R: I get that her R is a massive AOE stunned and that a cast delay is needed for counterplay, but I can't tell you the number of times Zed/Yasuo jumps around while I cast this spell only for it to not stun. Even if it is against an immobile champ, any random movement (intentional or not) will greatly decrease the chance of a stun.

From this point, her entire kit falls apart because nothing else works because it is so hard to land her Q and W. Also, using her W as a zoning tool to help land her ult is such a gamble because it puts her in combat range, and if you don't get that stun, you are screwed.

The champ kit is so unreliable that you have no option but to buy first. But don't forget her E is a mana guzzler. So you also need mana and CDR to speed up the cast speed. And don't forget she can't buy boots so she will also need asap causing her to spend more just to get decent mpen.

It just feels like she requires too much item wise just to function like a normal champ. Am I the only one who feels like this?