My thoughts on Cassiopeia so far

So I have played like 4 battles with her (cass main, not the best, but I still know her) and she feels a lot weaker now :/ her early game is worse, I dislike the Q range nerf, it just makes her more vulnerable than she was to longer ranged mages. It is definitely less rewarding and more risky to go for a trade in the laning phase, her set-up 0,9 cd on her E makes you lose a lot of dps, hence, the enemies can outtrade you easily with a faster, easier and more damaging combo (like brand). Her W feels better, but I think it is overrated really, people can just walk easily out of it. I tried maxing her Q since the damage got up, I found myself oom even more often than her Stashu version. Yes, you are even more manahungry now... I feel like it is important to stack CDR on cass now, so I go for morello instead of tear, and its sustain is not that great at all, also, with soo many things you want to be building her to be efective and of course Void Staff is not between the first items you may wanna rush her, she can get countered easily with MR since she cant buy boots anymore.

Mid-game she still feels weak, her new W does not compesate all the nerfs to her dps and her Q range. I think she got some really nice potential lategame with how swifty she can be, specially if you build Ludens, but her Stashu lategame version was anyways stronger. So yeah, Cass definitely feels more on the weaker side this midseason, I expect she is going to have less winrate and less pickrate, specially since she is sooo outshadowed by the other mages that are pretty strong now (brand, malza, velkoz). I feel like I have been very objective with this review I gave.

Idk if I am not playing her well now (if so, how does one has to play her now?) or if i am not building her properly. This are the thoughts of a regular and simple League player.