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Nightcrawl's S4 Revamped Diamond 2 Cassiopeia Guide

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Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Starting Items

Core

Alternatives

Ability Order

Cassiopeia Passive Ability

Introduction

Hello fellow readers. My summoner name is Nightcrawl and I am currently Diamond 2 on the EUW server.

Cassiopeia was my most played champion in S2 and S3 and is currently my 2nd most played in S4.

This guide is really short and made to teach the basics of Cassiopeia.

Pros / Cons

Pros :

- The most dominant laner in the game
- Insane DPS / Initiation
- Possible 500+ damage AoE stun

Cons :

- No escape abilities
- Next to no damage when missing your abilities
- Hard to play / position with

Runes

For maximum damage output : greater mark of hybrid penetration

vs physical damage in lane :

vs magical damage in lane :

vs low damage lane :

vs high damage lane :

For more damage :

For more speed :

Summoner Spells

For maximum safety : and
For more damage : and
For protection vs assassins : and

Champion Abilities

:

- AoE damage on cursor's location after a short delay
- Level 1 harassing ability
- Used to enable spam

:

- Slowing poison field that grows over time
- Used to waveclear, zone and protect vs melee champs
- Combined with for nice percentage hp damage

:
- Single target damage nuke
- Cooldown resets to 0.5 seconds when hitting a poisoned champion
- Used for infinite amount of DPS

:

- AoE damage CC ability
- Stuns enemies facing / slows enemies turning their backs
- Can be used with for amazing initiations

Items

Offensive choices :

- : More AP = More damage
- : Maximum penetration
- : Nice AP / Allows to initiate more safely / Counter AD
- : More penetration / Get early for lane dominance
- : Even more penetration / Tank shredding / Some early health

Defensive choices :

- : Gives a nice amount of MR
- : Prevents lethal CC late game ( e.g. / /
- : If you get focussed a lot / Nice in combination with /
- : Boosts your healing through ( only in combination with WotA of course ) and gives some nice MR

Utility choices :

- : For some really needed mana regen and magic resist
- : Really nice choice for overall slowing and kiting (skip for this item if you can
- : Spellvamp on Cassio works great / Skip for this item
- : When playing vs AD champions build over since you don't need the MR

Gameplay

General laning :

-Always try to poke as much as possible and use twing fang as much as you can

-Keep your enemies on their toes by pushing them into their turret while constantly harassing

-Always keep both sides warded

-You can cast your and then to land it easier

Level 1 :

-Poke as much as possible with autoattacks and

-If you land 2 or 3 in a row you can the enemy which makes them blow a lot of the time

Level 2-5 :

-Hit and follow up with autoattacks and

Level 6+ :

-Always try to land nice ultimates on your foe and look for as many all-ins as possible

Teamfights :

-Stay in the back and put down a lot of AoE's with and

-If you see the opportunity to hit a group of enemies with go for it

-Spam on squishy carry champions

-Don't forget to use