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Spells:
Clarity
Flash
Ability Order
Serpentine Grace (PASSIVE)
Cassiopeia Passive Ability
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yes i am well aware that there are much more benificial runes for cass such as mana regen or even max mana and mpen however i have chosen AP per level for a very special reason. the reason is because GA is a huge psychological debuf to the opponent and will give them a huge incentive to not attack you and if your building GA, your AP wont be getting bigger so to have AP you need it from somewhere else and the only place that i can fit it in is in the runes. and when you hit lv9 you have the equvlent of blasting wand in AP from runes and at lv18 the equivalent of needlessly large rod.




this set up is also worth a try.
many people who worry about survivability will put it into their runes and build glass cannon. this however is not mathematically correct. lets say you have a setup for runes that looks like this: Greater Mark of Vitality Greater Seal of Vitality Greater Glyph of Vitality Greater Quintessence of Vitality results in at most a
















i cake clarity and flash because clarity will keep me in lane longer and will help me out late game to keep you in the fight longer as well and flash is just a "get out of fail free card" as some may put it where it helps you escape often. however if you dont like to take one or the other of the summoner spells there are other options. they are listed in the order of which pops into my head first so if its at the top of the list, its equally recomended as one at the bottom of the list.







you can also do miasma + noxious blast at lv2 and that will also get you the 3 caster minions. needless to say you can only do this on a solo lane. however the problem to this is that it takes 9 seconds to get the rear 3 minions where as for morgana it takes 5 seconds or less to get the rear 3 minions.
needless to say this works best on a solo lane where the opposing team isn't super stupid and pushes like crazy. if they do push like crazy, punish them with a gank from your jungler.



because cass has outrageous DPS, spell vamp is a must thats why the first item is revolver. of course after revolver she gets boots like most champs (which i still dont understand how she makes use of the boots since she doesn't have feet in any shape or form). next up is will of the ancients. for a 900g upgrade cost you get 40 more AP and 5% more spellvamp. best deal in the store, not like blasting wand gives you 5% spellvamp and even if the effects of will of the ancients only applies to yourself, its well worth the buy. and of course the spell pen boots is gotten shortly after. the last bit of your core build is the GA. this will give the other team alot less of an incentive to focus you because they know you'll come back after. because GA offers no AP what so ever, it is during this period that your AP runes comes into play the most. as you level your AP will grow without you having to spend a single penny on AP as a result you dont need to worry about having to buy AP each time you back because your runes will cover it for you.
the total cost of the build,



assuming you are on a solo lane and your good at farming (which you should be if your on a solo lane) you should get about 90-110 minion kills by the 10 min mark each minion gives an average of 21g if memory serves so thats 2100g from just minions and added to the 8:30 min of 1g per second resulting in 510g and the 475g that you start off with then you have roughly 3100g by 10 min. this is not including ganks from your jungler that might have gotten you a kill/assist. and according to the numbers you should have will of the ancients and sorc boots by the 11 min mark. as said this is purely theoretical meaning how it will play out in a normal game is totally different. however with just revolver and boots, you can pretty much 1v1 any other champ because your damage + the heal from revolver is plenty enough to keep you alive through almost anything in a normal 1v1 (yes cc will kill you but you have your own cc too)
in practice i have gotten roughly 70 cs at 10min because i'm not good at last hitting and that resulted in 2100g roughly meaning that you have gotten enough for you revolver and you spell pen boots and a few wards (or will of the ancients and brown boots) right there and with a setup of those two items, you have enough power to 1v1 the enemy solo lainer because your actual hp bar is actually your hp bar and 20% of their hp bar. in practice how will it work will slightly differ but at lv9 with your revolver and boots (or will and boots) and maybe another amplifying tomb it is well enough to face most other lv9s. and again the number will be shown here.
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