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Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Ability Order
Serpentine Grace (PASSIVE)
Cassiopeia Passive Ability
Introduction
Hello everyone! I am Keondre and I am going to explain











A lot of people underestimate




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Strong Pros
+ Amazing farmer! + Awesome AoE damage! + Perfect laning partner! + Extreme burst damage! + Fun to play! + She's a snake?!?! xD + Not very mana-dependant! |
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Bloody Cons
- Very squishy... =( - Focused in team fights - Easily countered - Not very noob-friendly - Hard to master - Gold dependant. |

Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: By using these quints, they will increase your damage immensely. These runes will add up to around 15 AP early game. That is equal to the damage of
Doran's Ring. With other runes and masteries, at the beginning of the same, you would be at 46 AP.
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: This is one rune that packs a HUGE punch. These will increase your burst damage all throughout the game, but it will mostly be noticeable early game.
Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power: These runes are amazing. It takes only about 5 levels to out-scale flat AP runes, so these are pretty good. They will help you throughout the game, the AP will be noticeable... believe me.
Greater Seal of Scaling Mana Regeneration: I cannot tell you how much I love these runes. These runes help you stay in lane longer. You won't be OOM as much as you would without it. You won't really need blue buff unless you are really aggressive and want to harass them as much as possible.













This is how your rune page should look like. The cost is at the bottom right hand corner. Note that these are the runes that I decided to take, which are the ones I recommended in this build. I actually took



I am NOT going to go over every mastery, but just the ones I feel need to be mentioned.
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Mental Force will give you 3 ability power. Helps you farm and do more harass. Can be replaced with
Brute Force .
Sorcery is a perfect mastery for an AP carry. Who wouldn't mind some CDR?? CDR allows you to spam your moves more. More spam = more harass! CDR is perfect on any AP carry, even if your cooldowns are extremely low, like
Lux's ultimate, Finales Funkeln.
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Swiftness is an amazing mastery. Early game movement speed is very important. Movement speed allows you to chase enemies quicker, return to lane quicker, gank quicker, etc. They are just so useful that no one can live without it!
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Expanded Mind is awesome. This adds more Mana. The more mana, the more abilities can be used.
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Runic Affinity is an EXTREMELY helpful mastery.
Runic Affinity gives you 20% more duration of buffs. This also means blue buff. The more duration on blue buff, the more spam, the more harass, the more damage, the more kills.

Item Sequence










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: These boots are perfect for
Cassiopeia! It gives obviously movement speed, and magic penetration. Magic penetration is extremely noticeable, especially when you are spamming
Twin Fang on an opponent. It will bring down their life faster then you can say PEEEAAANUUUTT BBBUUUTTTEEERRR!
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:
Will of the Ancients gives you a lot more sustain in lane. It provides spell vamp, which allows you to gain life back while using your abilities. Because
Cassiopeia has
Twin Fang, you will be full life in no time. I will explain more about spell vamp later on in the guide, this is just an introduction to
Will of the Ancients.
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: This item provides a lot of things that benefit an AP carry.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter provides an awesome passive, health, and ability power. This also will make you a bit more beefy.
Cassiopeia is so squishy, that she needs this extra health. You will get almost a PERMA-SLOW due to her abilities. Thanks JhoiJhoi for pointing this out.
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: This hat looking thing increases your damage output by A LOT!
Rabadon's Deathcap gives you 140 Ability Power. It's passive will increase your ability power by 30%. Every AP carry needs it, so I am not going to go more in-depth on this item.
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: I think that
Zhonya's Hourglass is a perfect item for any AP carry. This helps against really annoying AD carries, like
Xin Zhao or
Master Yi. This also helps you if someone used
Ignite on you, and you are extremely low on health. You won't die because of
Zhonya's Hourglass's active. It's active makes you invulnerable for 2 seconds, but unable to move at all. I cannot tell you how awesome this item is. It also makes you literally immune to
Karthus's ultimate,
Requiem!
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: Love this item. Pretty cheap for the stats it provides.
Banshee's Veil is a strong item against magic damage, but is most valued for its ability to prevent crowd control. As such it is highly recommended to build
Banshee's Veil when you are being focused by crowd control effects, or when the enemy has initiation or pulling abillities like
Enchanted Crystal Arrow and
Rocket Grab. Really helpful against those fed AP carries or that
Ashe that is focusing you. I'd say it is one of the best items available in the game. Really powerful against
Varus and his ultimate,
Chain of Corruption.








- You can lead enemy champions to the blast to gain the movement speed buff.
- When getting ganked, predict where the enemy champion will go next, and cast
Noxious Blast there so you can get the movement speed buff to get away.
- You can cast
Noxious Blast from the opposite side of a wall to harass an opponent without them knowing where you are.










- Take a point in
Miasma early to increase your cs immensely.
- Shoot
Miasma in team fights on their ENTIRE team.
- The slow stacks with
Rylai's Crystal Scepter's passive, so make sure to make use of the slow when getting ganked.




- You can use
Flash to blink over a wall or to an enemy and use
Twin Fang to finish them off.
- Use
Twin Fang when your opponent is stunned AND poisoned. You will be able to accomplish these with
Petrifying Gaze,
Miasma, and
Noxious Blast.
- Spam
Twin Fang on poisoned enemy units to regain health if you have purchased
Will of the Ancients,
Hextech Revolver, or
Hextech Gunblade.
- Spam
Twin Fang on poisoned enemies in team fights to burst down the enemy team. You will usually end up with 2-3 casualties, but 2-3 is worth it for 5.



- Using
Flash to blink in front of an enemy to proc the stone (stun), rather than the slow, is not very a predictable by opponents that aren't very familiar with
Cassiopeia.
- Use
Petrifying Gaze in team fights to stone (stun) your opponents so your team can damage them.
- Use
Flash to blink over a wall, to an unsuspecting opponent. Use
Petrifying Gaze and then finish them off with the rest of your combo.

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Statistics: Cost: 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 mana
Total Magic Damage: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+0.8 per ability power)
Magic Damage Per Second: 25 / 38 / 52 / 65 / 78 (+0.27 per ability power)
Movement Speed Boost: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25%

Q. "Kat, why do you max

A.



Situatuonal Items are items that can be bought to fit the current situation of your game. I am going to explain a lot of items that can be bought to help you live against AD Carries and other AP carries.
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: This can be extremely useful against annoying AD carries like
Master Yi or
Vayne. This item gives you 100 armor. UNIQUE Passive: On being hit with basic attacks or abilities that apply on-hit affects, returns 30% as magic damage. This means they are basically killing themselves when they go against you.
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: I personally LOVE this item. It is extremely useful against
Master Yi when he has activated
Highlander. The passive and aura on this item is awesome.
Frozen Heart also gives you 99 armor and 500 mana. UNIQUE Passive: +20% CDR. UNIQUE Aura: Reduces the attack speed of nearby enemies by 20%. I get this a lot, so I do recommend it. I only get it when the situation fits, that is.
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: These boots can replace
Sorcerer's Shoes. I get this when I am against a champion that does a lot of burst damage or a team that is heavy on CC. I always take these boots when I am against
LeBlanc,
Morgana,
Anivia,
Lux,
Annie,
Leona,
Sejuani,
Lulu, and
Sion.
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: I only get this item when the team is focusing me in team fights, which they mostly do because I am the AP carry, it comes with the job. I basically get this item like almost every 3 games. I get it almost every 3 games because usually in one of those 3, there is that ****head that wants to piss me off, and keeps on focusing. This makes
Cassiopeia beffier, which she really needs.
Rod of Ages provides enough health, IMO, to keep you alive in MOST games.
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:
Force of Nature is extremely helpful. It provides magic resistance, health regeneration, and movement speed. Magic resistance is always helpful if you are up against that fed
Annie. The health regeneration comes in handy if you are defending your tower and you are low health, you will be back full health in no time xD! Hey, who doesn't want more movement speed? More movement speed = faster chases, faster ganks, return to lane faster, etc.
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: Doesn't really need an explanation. The more CDR the more spam, the more harass, the more kills.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity can also come in handy to reduce the cooldown of your summoner spells (I think it affects summoner spells). Like every other thing, the CDR has a cap, it caps at 40% CDR. Well get it if you want, I put it in here because it is possible to work with on
Cassiopeia. It also reduces the CD on
Twin Fang when it refreshes from poison, so that will come in handy when you are 1v1ing someone.
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: I don't get
Rod of Ages because it takes WAY TO LONG to build. In general, when you get
Rylai's Crystal Scepter, you don't get
Rod of Ages with it. This is very useful for lane sustain, and is bought by many
Cassiopeia players. I personally think that this is only useful when you are up that really experienced
Ahri, and you keep recalling because you are in dire need of health, mana, pots, etc. Get this if you want, whatever suites your fancy.
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: Only get this item when you are doing EXTREMELY good. That means that your opponents suck hairy balls and can't even kill your AP
Vayne (she has nothing that scales of off magic damage). Make sure that you don't die so you don't lose your stacks. You have to have at least 8 stacks for this item to be worth a slot.
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: This is a very useful item. It gives you 70 AP, and 57 magic resistance, and an awesome aura. The aura reduces the magic resistance of nearby enemies by 20. Your support should get this, but you can get it too to help you in those 1v1 situations. Lower magic resistance means more danage from
Twin Fang. Don't get this if you are getting
Void Staff.
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: This gives you 350 mana, 80 AP, 30 magic resistance, and a bonus of 7% movement speed.
Lich Bane has an active that is extremely helpful, but mostly helpful on
Orianna.
Lich Bane's passive gives your next basic attack, after you use an ability, a bonus. Your next basic attack will do physical damage that is equal to your AP. There is always time for basic attacks between
Twin Fangs.
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: This item is extremely helpful if you are having trouble controlling your mana.
Chalice of Harmony is also helpful if you are harassing your enemies HARD.
Chalice of Harmony's passive gives you 1% Mana Regeneration for each 1% mana you are missing. This item also gives you a Magic Resistance boost, so it is very helpful on any AP carry, especially
Cassiopeia. If your jungler is greedy and won't give you blue buff, definitely grab
Chalice of Harmony.

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*THE SPELLS CHOSEN ABOVE ARE FROM PERSONAL PREFERENCE!*

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Okay, I am having some people annoying me about the spells. Remember, I am just explaining these spells from my preference. This is just because my play style, people have different play styles, but these spells I think are explained well enough so you know what to take, and what not to take. Take whatever you want to, just don't take the ones under the "NO, JUST NO!"

Farming is easy with





















The above photo illustrates the zones that are there when you are farming and pushing. With


Introduction: Okay everyone. I wanted to put up a section on who you will be most likely facing against mid-lane. These are just my personal experience on who you will be against. Enjoy this section :D!
I am doing





Mirror laning isn't very difficult. Obviously you have the same ability ranges as the enemy












































Occasionally, you will meet those people that like to go mid lane with these 3. I personally LOVE going mid lane with these 3. They have high damage, and people underestimate them. I am going to explain each of them in the 3 paragraphs below.










































I personally play all 3 of them, and use these techniques. Counter them the way I explained. Make sure to dodge whatever they throw at you, and you will do fine.













































This little slick fish will be able to evade your ultimate pretty easily. He can use











This little **** will get on your nerves. She can snare you with











This ***** will piss you the **** off. She will constantly harass you with




Okay, same with


































Okay, I have explained a lot of the mid laners you might encounter. I feel like I have talked to much in this section so go take a break and come read the rest of my guide after your break.

The above video shows you how to zone enemies and everything you need to know about zoning!

- This is an awesome starter item. If you are going against
Morgana, you will probably need to start with these items. Start with these to dodge skillshots (i.e.
Dark Binding,
Light Binding,
Thundering Shuriken, etc.) I, PERSONALLY only start with these if I am
Sejuani or
Fizz. Also start with these if you are against
Cassiopeia or
Karthus because they have a high poke with both Q abilities (
Noxious Blast and
Lay Waste).
- I start with
Doran's Ring on mostly all of the AP carries I play. These provide everything an AP carry needs: Health, Mana Regeneration, and Ability Power (DUHH)! Well, now that I revamped and tested some stuff, it's better to start with
Boots and 3x
Health Potions.
- I only start with
Regrowth Pendant and 1
Health Potion if I am for some reason solo top. I do think that ranged does better at solo top because they can farm easier than melee solos. She is a GOOD solo top laner, but she should be in mid.
Cassiopeia can fill in most roles, so she can be placed at solo top. You can start with this even if you are mid lane. It's all just your personal preference, you can start with this if you feel like you need more sustain. Just build it into Philosopher's Stone and then into
Shurelya's Battlesong (IF you don't want to sell Philosopher's Stone).


Reasons to Ward:
- Warding prevents ganks. If they have a jungler or someone MIA, then this is extra important.
- Keeps jungle under YOUR team's control.
- You can steal
Dragon or
Baron Nashor.








These wards will come in handy, but not as much as

Most likely you will have your support (i.e.



Remember: HELP YOUR ****ING SUPPORTS!

Thanks for taking a look at my guide. I worked really hard on it, so comments are appreciated. If you liked it, comment, and REP me please. This is my first guide, I tried to make it as professional as I could. Again, thanks for taking your time to read it. I hope this build works for you. It isn't for everyone, just for those who have the same play style as I do. I am going to be posting guides soon, so keep an eye out for them :D!

I'd like to thank everyone who helped me.
List below:
- Thanks to jhoijhoi for reviewing my guide, giving me her permission to use her guide on making guides which can be found here. I'd also like to thank her for the picture of the zones in mid lane which can be found in her Malevolent Morgana guide.
- I'd like to thank CasterMaster for reviewing and helping me a lot with the introduction banner.
- I'd like to thank albableat and Pluckin Penguin for their reviewing.
- I'd like to thank Xaioli for helping me with the masteries and stuff. And her helpful review :D
- I'd like to thank GrandMasterD for his review and tips.
- I'd like to thank LaCorpse for the neon line dividers.
- I'd like to thank A Chubby Baby for her review and her suggestions to my guide.

- April 6, 2012 - Created guide.
- April 8, 2012 - Added
Chalice of Harmony to "Situational Items" section.
- May 09, 2012 - Deleted pictures on photobucket / deleted spell vamp section so I can revamp it / Revamped Masteries and Items.
- May 10, 2012 - Added chapter banners / Revamped credits section.
- May 11, 2012 - Revamped Runes / Edited
Abyssal Mask in the "Situational Items" section / Added "Noxious Blast?" section.
- May 12, 2012 - Added zoning tutorial / added neon line dividers / Added optional runes and rune page picture.
- May 13, 2012 - Edited
Mejai's Soulstealer explanation / Removed
Shurelya's Battlesong from the "Situational Items" section.
- May 25, 2012 - Fixed some typos.
- June 18, 2012 - Cleaned up the cheat sheet. / Redid the masteries / Redid the "Masteries" section.
- July 22nd, 2012 - Fixed some coding errors in the "Summoner Spells" section.
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