Talk:VPBE/@comment-3308937-20140828085853/@comment-1330314-20140828143426

I don't think she really qualifies as a lane bully. Sure, her Q harass hurts a lot, but any champion with range or poke can chunk her a lot quicker, and a lot more safely. It's also not meant to be her primary source of damage: the reason Riot's moving power away from her non-E damage and into utility is because her Q, W and R are meant to be enablers to her E first and foremost. Not only does Twin Fang have a better scaling, but combined with her passive it deals enough damage to compensate for the loss in the rest of her kit.

Champions get reworked either because they're unhealthy for the game, or because they're not fulfilling their gameplay fantasy properly, and I think Cass's rework is due to the latter: the way her current kit is structured means her combo is excessively fiddly to land, and her optimal build (AP with a bit of tankiness) causes her damage to fall off. She's also one of those champions who needs mana not because it makes her stronger, but because it cures her mana problems, which is the wrong approach to mana management. It's likely her update started out with just a rework to her passive (which, despite its intention, doesn't let Cass spam as much as she'd want to), and then progressed onto the rest of her abilities.