Talk:Cassiopeia/@comment-9771997-20140513043729

Love Cass, and I take the stance that she's very viable if played correctly. She inhabits that place between dps and burst that a few other champs also do, but rather than occupying it awkwardly, the place seems to fit her. I used to hear a lot that you pretty much needed a team built around her for her to be viable, but I have never felt like that when I've actually used her. Safe playing and plentiful warding have saved my life more times than I can recall (on Cass and other champions), and have gotten me more than a few early kills, and particularly the former has kept me out of the wrong places at the wrong times.

By playing safe, I mean don't overextend your lane without warding well, don't chase them back to their tower with Twin Fang unless you're confident you either won't get ganked, or you're confident you can escape if you do, and don't sit under tower when low unless you think you can survive the dive. The greed is real, and it's one of the things that makes playing safe work so well. Ironically, baiting someone at the tower with heal/barrier has gotten me more kills and assists this season than ignite. Funny thing is, if you play safe they don't know how strong you are; they overestimate themselves and die for it. Post 6, if they dive you you can just stun them there, drop poisons, and more than likely kill them and survive. If you're too low to take another hit after you stun and burst them, turn, flash, and cross your fingers that either the turret gets them, or your jungler can clean up.