Talk:Cassiopeia/@comment-5889036-20140912230408/@comment-24055932-20140913080644

Well, he's right. Cassiopeias Q AP-Scaling got cut down harshly and she has no early-game mana-fix anymore. You can't anymore mindlessly spam Q till Ryze runs into it, at least not before you got your tear, and then it doesn't matter anymore, as you can't really level Q anymore - both mana and HP sustain rely on Twin Fang. On top of that, you now need to poison the minions so you get stacks out of them - so propably 50% of your Q's and W's aim on the minions.

Therefore you just can't poke Ryze down, whenever you want to harass with Twin Fang, he is most likely to engage onto you. Cassiopeias kit still is supreme to Ryze (higher DPS, CC), though now he has a fair chance to win the match.

I for one always built tear, as it totally solved her mana problems while still granting a strong lategame AP Item. With the additional CDR from 200 stacks you get the advantage of Chalice technically for free - only Morellonomicon was cut out in a bad way, as it grants a strong unique passive but you would have to waste 10% CDR to build it.

If you're looking for power spikes, I would guess you shouldn't focus on building one item, but collect all the flat Mpen you can find. If nobody respects your early damage, this should provide you quite a damage spike, and if they react on it and build MR you already reached your goal.

Though, I prefer utility on DPS-Champions, as more time for you technically is equivalent to more damage, and therefore build Rylais directly after tear.