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Cassiopeia Build Guide by

Cassiopeia, The Sneaky Snakey SoloQ Monster

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Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Starting Items

First Back

Core Items

Damage Items

Situational Items

Standard Final Build

Vs Heavy AP Build

Vs Heavy AD Build

Ability Order

Cassiopeia Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Fizz

Extreme

Fizz is a big pain. You have the advantage pre 3 because he is melee, but once he gets all of his abilities you have to be careful of his all ins, especially when he has ignite. His E allows him to easily juke your ulty and you Q, making him incredibly hard to kill. Your only advantage is that he is melee and your W prevents him from using Q or E. If he ever hits you with his ult throw W at him, it makes it much harder for him to engage on you. Take barrier and rush at least Negatron Cloak after Tear.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my very first guide for the slitherly snake-woman hybrid thingy known as Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia is a very strong champion for soloQ, however she has a pretty high skill floor and an insanely high skill cap. Cassiopeia is a champion one must put in hundreds of hours in order to master her, although if you're visiting this guide you are already on the right track.

Pros / Cons

Pros

- Very high single target damage with
- Amazing kiting potential
- Game changing ultimate
- Relevant at all stages of the game
- Insane late game
- Basically an AP version of an ADC

Cons

- High skill floor (and skill cap)
- Very dependent on landing
- Shorter range than most mages
- Not very bursty
- Immobile apart from
- easily countered by looking away

Runes

Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

This is the optimal choice for nearly every AP champion in the game due to the massive increase in damage you get from it

Greater Seal of Scaling Health

These are ideal because they are simply the most efficient defensive stats Seals have to offer, however is a viable alternative. Against AD champions I suggest or .

Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction

Cooldown reduction is a very important stat on Cassiopeia which is why I take these over things like or . If you are going to overcap your cdr though, you can switch these out for some extra AP or magic resist.

Greater Glyph of Magic Resist

Its very easy to stack magic pen especially with most AP mages and assassins running which makes every point of magic resist count more than you think. I always take at least a little magic resist in my runes specifically for that purpose.

Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed

Cassiopeia's passive prevents her from buying boots but gives her movespeed per level instead, however the passive doesn't begin to outscale boots until at least level 11. Movespeed Quints help mitigate this defficiency as well as the movespeed helps Cassiopeia both kite and chase easier. Do not underestimate the sheer utility of these quints.

Masteries

wikimastery=Savagery

This is just a better mastery in my opinion because it lets you last hit easier and allows you to push easier, in a lot of matchups you will be getting shoved under tower as well so csing under tower becomes much easier.

Assassin

After the nerfs to the damage masteries, has become my way of negating those nerfs and helps you get lane dominance over your opponent. is a good alternative however if I do need that extra sustain and I do usually take this against poke mages to prevent being pushed out of lane.

Meditation

With the damage nerfs, in my opinion has become not worth it on Cassiopeia simply because the mana sustain is just too good to pass up and is quite noticeable in lane, particularly when your Rengar jungle doesn't want to give blue or else he'll have "mana problems"

Dangerous Game

Honestly this is a really good ability for surviving 1v1s, especially now with exhaust and most people taking ignite in mid and even bot lane. Apart from that the other 2 masteries kind of just suck for mid laners so it's a bit of a no brainer.