User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Cassiopeia, the Serpent's Embrace/@comment-4888212-20150728230657/@comment-4888212-20150729004138

its more like a 170 AP burst not counting poison towards E.

and after that 50 AP per second as long as the enemy stays within 850 range.

the stacking mechanic was meant to prevent a highup stacking and keeping it there without having to hit a spell aka no counterplay or skill involved.

you could make it more similar to shen then if you like, having it tick down so its ready for an assassination without hacing to stack it up on minions first. but still, having it on every autoattack is way too strong. she is basically a teemo with stacking, stronger, burstier poison with a slow + speedup and a 700 range dash/reset and a 3sec LB activator.

i understand that she is supposed to be an AP hypercarry in the lategame, but her sustained damage equals that of azir or an ADC, without having to constantly hit the enemy, just tag him with an autoattack every 3 seconds. rylais + the kiting potential from the kit would make it unbearable. and i cannot force this point enough, NO COUNTERPLAY.

its okay to stack poison once every while with autos, but being able to stack it with autos only while missing every skill and still destroying the enemy is just wrong. where is the skill in that, where is the counterplay in that?

mages HAVE to hit their skills in order to deal damage, thats the whole point of being a mage.